Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good.