Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

A great passion has no partner.

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

Do more than believe: practice.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.