“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

“belief is the death of intelligence.”

“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”

“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ”

“...reality is always plural and mutable.”

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.”

“He blurred his thens and his nowsin a fantastic drunken distortionwith the thisness and thenness of now and before, re-spectively; wisps of Bburke with Jane infiltrated him without her, the way dry...”

“He blurred his thens and his nows—in a fantastic drunken distortion—with the thisness and thenness of now and before, re-spectively; wisps of Bburke with Jane infiltrated him without her, the way d...”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”

“It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of societys accepted normalcy”

“No one was normal, not really.”

“[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybodys, to make him normal.”