Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

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.

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.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

I do love you, but I can no longer wait for you to figure out how to love me in a way that makes us both feel good.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.