What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting, ' said a voice in his head.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.

I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

I rode a horse into a tree. I did. But I'm okay. Horses are naturally meant to avoid trees. This one didn't.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.