The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.

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.

Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing, " I say."Exactly.

The truth is like a lion

Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.

I was actually very surprised after using some plastic necklaces on the strings, as the sound was very bright. Sometimes I just put something inside that lies next to me.

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.