"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."

"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed."

"I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist."

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die."

"To master the mind is to understand that the true master is an eternal student."