Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

There are many who would take my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them.

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.