He who lives happiest has forgotten most

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.

I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.