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.

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 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.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.