quotes by Robert Joseph Shea

"MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?'
MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?'
JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.'
MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.'"
— Robert Joseph Shea (The Eye in the Pyramid)

"Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it."
— Robert Joseph Shea (The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan)

"An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials."
— Robert Joseph Shea

"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. Because it is so powerful, the organization is more dangerous than any other human invention, including nuclear fission (itself the product of an organized scientific project)."
— Robert Joseph Shea