Reality is what you can get away with.

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.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.

The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.