“How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: its not easy.”

“I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.”

“Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.”

“When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that...”

“It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than t...”

“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the u...”

“The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.”

“When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by hea...”

“I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was...”

“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And Im writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum phys...”

“Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some sphere of being and so to limit it. To define is to set b...”

“War is progress, peace is stagnation”