People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

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.

To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.

There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.