"Always look on the bright side of life."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

"Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose."

"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."

"I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen."

"When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right."

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."

"If male homosexuals are called 'gay,' then female homosexuals should be called 'ecstatic.'"

"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."