Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

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.

Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.