You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.
I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.
Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
Love is a credulous thing.