He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of…

“He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.”

— Christopher Moore

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is…

— D.T. Suzuki

One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of the ancients.…

— Peter of Blois

“Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.”

— Francis M. Nevins Jr

“Personally I always preferred Lipton's.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Rums, wie die Fliege”

— Wolfgang Borchert

“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")”

— Francis M. Nevins

“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that…

— Albert Camus

“People may have to die, but morbidity will live forever.”

— Mara Wilson

If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception…

— Armond White

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

— Phil Ochs

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre