"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

"Truth will triumph. It always does. However, I figure truth is a variable, so we're right back where we started from."

"Though Melville omitted it, Captain Ahab said, "In one sense, Aleister Crowley is lower than whale shit. In another, …"

"The logical figure of the absurd, which presents as stringent the contradictory opposite of stringency, negates all t…"

"Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well."

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

"Given that only the religion of pervasive kenosis can be truly universal, no single historical individual can exhaust…"

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal ga…"

"I learned from my father: Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he start…"