When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.