He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. Furthermore, he was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. Furthermore, he was also as kind as was possible for one holding that ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the National Interest. Furthermore, he still retained some sense of humor, despite the burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. Furthermore, he took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?

— Robert Anton Wilson

I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.

— Robert Anton Wilson

In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

— Robert Anton Wilson

...reality is always plural and mutable.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

— Robert Anton Wilson