Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.