What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.

They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

I read something about, "Why do actresses get plastic surgery," we like to look at pretty people, but I don't. I like to look at all faces, young, old.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.