Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

You exist to know thy Creator.

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

When you follow the dream in your heart, you're energised, inspired, & motivated.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.