"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?"

"All governmental intervention has as its object a forcible altering of what people would do were they unrestrained."

"What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?"

"Hatred - The anger of the weak."

"If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer."

"To fly we have to have resistance."

"The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure."

"Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."

"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."