Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis, ' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters, " Dr. Stone said.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.