Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

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.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

I have my welcome mat turned around backwards so when people leave they think they’re going to a better place.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son, ' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.

America, I appreciate you liking me.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.