"I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear."

“Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.”

“Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.”

“Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.”

Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.84, Macmillan

“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.”

“Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.”

Source : 1989 A Passion Observed: The Story of a Motorcycle Racer.

“The world is a drought when out of love.”

Source : "Song: 'Sick Sad Little World' ('A Crow Left of the Murder...')". 2004.

“Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc.”

“God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.”