Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

You have to choose your future regrets.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.