Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.