Sex Is The Mysticism Of Materialism.

The Only Thing That Really Teaches One What Life's About The Joy Of Understanding, The Joy Of Coming In Contact With What Life Really Signifies - Is Suffering, Affliction.

Contrary To What Might Be Expected, I Look Back On Experiences That At The Time Seemed Especially Desolating And Painful With Particular Satisfaction. Indeed, I Can Say With Complete Truthfulness That Everything I Have Learned In My Seventy-five Years In This World, Everything That Has Truly Enhanced And Enlightened My Existence, Has Been Through Affliction And Not Through Happiness, Whether Pursued Or Attained

There's A Large Strain Of Irony In Our Human Affairs... Interwoven With Our Affairs Is This Wonderful Spirit Of Irony Which Prevents Us From Ever Being Utterly And Irretrievably Serious, From Being Unaware Of The Mysterious Nature Of Our Existence.

Future Historians Will Surely See Us As Having Created In The Media A Frankenstein Monster Whom No One Knows How To Control Ordirect, And Marvelthat Weshould Have So Meekly Subjected Ourselves To Its Destructive And Often Malign Influence.

The First Thing I Remember About The World And I Pray That It May Be The Last Is That I Was A Stranger In It. This Feeling, Which Everyone Has In Some Degree, And Which Is, At Once, The Glory And Desolation Of Homo Sapiens , Provides The Only Thread Of Consistency That I Can Detect In My Life.