I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.