By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum.

Back seat only works if you have a great driver!!! Either hire the right one or take charge and drive!!!!!

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

The artist is always beginning.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!