When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

And I chose life and love and happiness and pain

There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that’s the rule

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.