...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Don't you wish it could happen? Your mind wiped clean like a hard drive? Start again without memories?

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

I want people to have less me.

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.