Jan 28, 2009
Former editor at Playboy, co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy, author of the Schroedinger's Cat trilogy, essayist, futurologist, philosopher, guerilla ontologist, libertarian, and stand-up comic. Saner than Timothy Leary and less pedantic than Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson examined everything and believed nothing.What's not to like?
We have seducers and rapists. The seducers become artists, and the rapists become politicians.
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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
--R.A.W

He played well with Tom Waits, too.