The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.