Robert Anton Wilson

“You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.”

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”

“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”

“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.”

“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.”

“A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.”

“The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.”

“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.”

“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”

“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.”

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”

“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”