Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

I don't care how old your children get, you're always a dad.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.