Wandering From One Adventure to the Next

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

I believe there are some people who really do want, if only subconsciously, an end to the world. They want to be spared of the responsibilities of maintaining that world, to be spared the effort of imagination needed to realize such a future. …I see twentieth century society as a sort of race between enlightenment and extinction.

God doesn’t always have the best God damn plans, does he?

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.