Never give a good politician time to pray.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.