“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

“I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.”

“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.”

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.”

“To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.”

“A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.”