I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

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.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman

All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

Restrictions will set you free.