Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Stop selling your life for peanuts.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.