This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

In a second you can change your mind, in a minute you can change your heart, in an hour you can change your life, and in a day you can change your destiny.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.