What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.

Some Christian leaders . . . are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

Remembrances last longer than present realities.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.