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 easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

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.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.