Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

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

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.