Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses.You become outstanding by focusing entirely on your strengths.

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

There's always next level, new decisions, and new episode. My life inspired by challenges

I write with teenagers in mind.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.