"Intelligence is nothing without delight."

"I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value."

"The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups."

"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."

"But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?"

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."

"You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it."

"For riches certainly make themselves wings."

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."

"I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself."