Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Dr Lecter, my candidate for the male archetype of 1951-2000, will never win any Nice Guy awards, I fear, but he symbolizes our age as totally as Bloom symbolized his. Hannibal's wit, erudition, insight into others, artistic sensitivity, scientific knowledge etc. make him almost a walking one man encyclopedia of Western civilization. As for his "hobbies" as he calls them -- well, according to the World Game Institute, since the end of World War II, in which 60,000,000 human beings were murdered by other human beings, 193, 000,000 more humans have been murdered by other humans in brush wars, revolutions, insurrections etc. What better symbol of our age than a serial killer? Hell, can you think of any recent U.S. President who doesn't belong in the Serial Killer Hall of Fame? And their motives make no more sense, and no less sense, than Dr Lecter's Darwinian one-man effort to rid the planet of those he finds outstandingly loutish and uncouth.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Belief in external 'obscenity' is the modern form of the witchcraft delusion.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
No, they were not exactly automatons, but they did not know what they were doing. They take down a boy's britches. They stare at his buttocks. They cane him until the buttocks bleed. And they believe this is virtue, because it is done in a school, and it becomes vice only if it is done in a place with a red lantern over the door.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
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