You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

If you're going to play strength, you've got to marry that with a vulnerability and give your character some relatable qualities.

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.