If I'm not afraid of dying, what should I be afraid of?

Hell is waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here... but I'm out now.  It took somebody who was kind to me getting killed to do it, but I'm out. I know exactly what I gotta do.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me, I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about Jaws is the fact that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

This life is a test. If it were not a test, this message would have been followed by instructions on what to do next.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.  Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.  Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know, that's a really good argument, my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds, and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Not the common world do I mean, of those who (as I have heard) cannot bear grief and desire but to bathe in bliss.  (May God then let them dwell in bliss!)  Another world I do hold in mind, which bears together in one heart its bitter sweetness and its dear grief, its heart's delight and its pain of longing, dear life and sorrowful death, dear death and sorrowful life.  In this world let me have my world, to be damned with it or to be saved.