You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.