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

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

Communication is only possible between equals.

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.