All Quotes

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ”

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. ”

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ”

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ”

Nothing is true, everything is permitted. ”

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. ”

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. ”

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ”