After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.