“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Soc...”

“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange thingselves and fairiesand now we don't. Now we see them, right?”

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand th...”

“If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.”

“If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.”

“Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice.”

“Question everythingno matter how beloved, or how long-held, or how exaltedwithout apology. Only those who build their world upon lies need fear an inquisitive mind. The truth will remain, even afte...”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while t...”

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“Fear and doubt are major stampeders.”