the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

We are gods with anuses.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

Sorry, Jesus, I have to curse!

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.