The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.