“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.”

“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.”

“You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.”

“As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.”

“You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.”

“The very idea of higher states of consciousness is absurd. Comparing one state of consciousness to another and saying one is "higher" and the other is "mundane" is like eating a banana and complaining it's not a very good apple.”

“If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.”