The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

My hits are not hits.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.