25 quotes found
“Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.”
“Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.”
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
“Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.”
“Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.”
“They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.”
“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yours...”
“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
“This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
“It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”
“The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.”
“Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large ...”
“The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -- in this case an attempt by a beleaguered mind to make sense out of the inscrutable. Perhaps thi...”
“Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.”
“Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way h...”
“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russi...”
“You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer.""Did he show you slides?"We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at wh...”
“Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane not just insane but totally so or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to...”
“I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the firs...”
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get t...”
