I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.