If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.