Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

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.

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.

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

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

All things change, nothing perishes.

Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

Telling someone who’s crying not to cry is the same as telling someone who’s falling not to fall.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.