We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

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.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Reality is what you can get away with.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.