You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

There are many who would take my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them.

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

Seems like people get obsessed about times and numbers and weights and that - I'm obsessed with winning.

Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

Stay away from a companionship that does not benefit you with knowledge.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.