Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

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

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

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

... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.