Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

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.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.