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.

Every national border in Europe,' El Eswad added ironically, 'marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others.

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences

No wife, no horse, no mustache.

Hippies generally aren’t busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.