The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well