As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

Leaders: Captains of industry.