Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

I'd put my faith in god, but I haven't met him, and I've been hurt before.

I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while.

I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always.

You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.