If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

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 purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

Killing makes me feel good.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.