My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.