In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

There is no complete theory of anything.

Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.