I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

I've never even been to Long Island

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

After all answering "mmm" or silence in the story "The story in the Jail", it's shown that isn't the best idea.

How to write a book? Start writing, continue writing and finish writing.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

If I had to pick between Heaven and Hell, I'd pick Hell, because I can't keep white clean.

The photograph annihilates the person.