Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

The best fiction is true.

When you give yourself fully with your mind and body to a mission, you can get more than 100% returns.

I love you, Avery. Always. You completed my life. You made me whole, gave me hope, made me a better man. For me, you were everything right in my life." - Kane Dalton

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.