Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

Do what you gotta do and stay fly

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.