“Stripped to its essentials, every decision in life amounts to choosing which lottery ticket to buy.... Most organisms don't buy lottery tickets, but they all choose between gambles every time their bodies can move in more than one way. They should be willing to 'pay' for information---in tissue, energy, and time---if the cost is lower than the expected payoff in food, safety, mating opportunities, and other resources, all ultimately valuated in the expected number of surviving offspring. In multicellular animals the information is gathered and translated into profitable decisions by the nervous system.”

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 18, Hope

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

The Visitor in Ch. 44 : the visitor, pp. 460-461
The Visitor (2002)

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)

On se fâche souvent contre les Gens de Lettres qui se retirent du monde. On veut qu'ils prennent intérêt à la Société dont ils ne tirent presque point d'avantage. On veut les forcer d'assister éternellement aux tirages d'une loterie où ils n'ont point de billet.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #447
Reflections

2015, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (2015)