I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

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.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow.

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.