Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

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.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I think that I'm perfect.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.