No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.