"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

...reality is always plural and mutable.