"You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to."
-Philip K. Dick

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
-Kurt Vonnegut

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
-Hermann Hesse

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Eco