I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

Love, in its purest form, is biology.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

instead of venting my anger, which is really just hurt dressed up for a night on the town, I ask if anyone needs a drink.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

The strongest passion is fear.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.