Sometimes, even a devil can do an angel's work.

It's irresponsible for anybody to think they know everything about anything.

Weakness denied is weakness indeed, but weakness acknowledged is really hidden strength.

It's an anomalous thing, the imagination. The more you use it, the more of it there is to use.

The finite nature of things is what makes stuff special.

Some people can look at the light, the brightness of life, and that's all they need to be happy. Me, I like to dwell on the shadows it casts, because it helps me better define the light itself.

The way I see it, words are only useful in a subjective way. Meanings are fluid and malleable, and interpretations can vary wildly from one individual to the next while losing no validity in the transition. Words allow everyone to feel like the center of the universe.

Objectivity's a myth.

You can't get a feel for people by observing them. You get a perception. To get a feel, you have to interact.

The only order that rules the universe is so intricate and complex that our lives aren't long enough to even see the beginnings of the structure. For all intents and purposes, from our point of view, it's all unpredictable chaos.

What I do with [most people] I don't consider interaction. They're like toys, I like to wind them up and watch them go.

How much do I know? Not as much as I want to know. I suspect that this condition will prove terminal in my case.

Understanding is not a prerequisite for acceptance.

Compared to eternity, our lives are pretty insignificant; I try to experience as much as I can while it's mine.

 I find that anytime you can admit to being unhappy for a long stretch, and at the same time say "this is the way things usually work," it's a good time to try changing stuff around a bit.

I let my brain run free and try to cope as it leads me places.

Your mind limits itself, but it's the only thing that does.

Instead of trying to understand why, you should try waiting to understand why.

I'll take peace over happiness any day.

I try to take pleasure in as much as I can, and a lot of times that includes the way tension and stress makes a reward sweeter.

The key to youth is the blind and irrational denial of aging, especially in the face of evidence.

Constant thought is not a privilege, it's an affliction; I just learned how to make it work for me.

Violence is an excellent way to solve lots of problems, and it always will be, I don't care what all these peace-lovin' hippies say.

Life's too short to spend it pretending to be someone you're not.

I rule my website with an iron fist. Made of iron. Which makes it heavy. It makes my arm tired, really.

You'll survive.

Bad moods are self-propagating. And bad days are frequent, depending on your disposition. If you don't control it, the only mood you're ever in is bad.

The female mind is nothing if not resilient in its absurdity when it comes to holding onto fantasy in the face of fact.

They wouldn't be stereotypes if they weren't true most of the time.

Helen Keller couldn't ignore me.

I'm perfectly happy making misguided, arbitrary decisions. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything if I don't get to know someone 'cause I think they're a dickbag.

When someone is irrationally repelled by another, it's normally because of a perceived threat to your way of thinking or intimidation.

Reality has very little to offer me that I actually give a crap about.

Some people think I should write a book. To these people I'd like to ask: Will there be cake?

I quote me all the time. I'm quoting me right now.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
~Albert Einstein~

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
~Sir Isaac Newton~

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
~Jim Morrison~

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
~Theodore Roosevelt~

"Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm."
~M.C. Escher~

"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
~Henry Miller~

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? "
~Sun Tzu~

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

"There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal."

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
~Carlos Castaneda~

"If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want."
~Mother Teresa~

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
~Mahatma Gandhi~

“If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.”
~Bulgarian Proverb~

"Half of writing history's hiding the truth."
~Captain Malcolm Reynolds~

“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
~Napoleon Bonaparte~

"I only live free in my mind, for I am a captive to many others."
~TJ Little~

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
~Mark Twain~

"A dog has the soul of a philosopher."
~Plato~

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
~Friedrich Nietzsche~

"Normal people are so hostile"
~Dexter Morgan~

"If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom."
~Perry Farrell~

"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."

"A small leak can sink a great ship."

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."

"God helps those who help themselves."

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

"Never confuse motion with action."

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."