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What is 'truth'?" Mike asked. ("What is Truth?" asked a Roman judge, and washed his hands of a troublesome question. Jubal wished that he could do likewise.)

Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.

My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth.

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: Of course it is none of my business, but -- is to place a period after the word but.

write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. Title

I have no hesitation in saying that I have no comment—and you can quote me that that is strictly off the record.

human being has no natural rights of any nature.

Vengeance is mine, saith the lord, but only if Gwen leaves me any.

The story is a post-utopia, a somewhat revolutionary form when it was published—and one reader-critic (Jamie Todd Rubin) called it "the first generally 'post-Singularity' story ever written in science fiction" (if we had not lost our faith in the American utopian vision, it might have had imitators instead of the wave after wave of dystopias we did get—and continue to get).

Satan, receive my soul; Jesus is a fink

What are you smiling about? And five! And four! chanted Meade. Nothing much. After we get to Titan we might— The blast cut off her words; the Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn.

We're trying to apply Clarke's Law." "I don't recall it. Maybe it was while I was out with mumps." "Arthur C. Clarke," Pop told her. "Great man—too bad he was liquidated in The Purge.

Robert A. Heinlein

People were startled to hear that if we don't go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time.

For death holds no mention of You. In Sheol who can acclaim You? -Psalm 6:6

What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis...and insanity is the only viable alternative.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

I ask only one thing of skeptics: don't bring up Soviet Russia, please. That horrible example of State Capitalism has nothing to do with what I, and other libertarian socialists, would offer as an alternative to the present system.

Somehow, in passing from abnormal temperatures to blue luminescence and haloes, we seem to have crossed a line, and, for most readers, skepticism is increasing. I wonder why that is? Is it possible that what I call the New Idol so dominates the modern world that even those who read a subversive book like this are still uneasy about becoming too blasphemous, too heretical?

I don't know who first said, Science fiction is the mythology of our time. An increasing number of occultists are realizing this and are incorporating science fiction into their rituals.

But I tend to agree with the black novelist Ishmael Reed that the history of the world is largely the history of the warfare between secret societies which are conspiratorial in most cases.

By the 1990s, of course, the U.S. government no longer considered people who showed respect for the Constitution to be suspected Communists. Instead, such people were considered suspected Terrorists.

So there we are. Aldous Huxley, Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. John Lilly, philosopher Alan Watts and several other recent theorists have used this metaphor and this argument, usually without knowing that they were echoing Aleister Crowley.

And, since this was before the invention of Christianity, these erotic eucharists were more often identified with religion than with sin.