If you want to be a private eye, you have to get used to such things as hideous depression and abject despair.

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

...although the universe itself isn't a conscious entity, it possesses the raw materials that, when properly set into motion, create consciousness. It has the ability to create intelligent life, which is capable of understanding the universe... It can know itself indirectly