I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

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.

Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

The city's all brightnessand shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure.

I write out of defiance.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.