What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.