Belief is the death of intelligence.

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.

By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

I like keeping my mind as far away from money and the material aspects of my job as possible.

I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.