Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

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.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.

ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.