Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

When you stop looking over your shoulder, you shall see that the future is way nicer than the past.

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

Have a nice, cuntlovin' day.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.