-"He was trying to buy more sand for his hourglass. I wasn't selling any."

-"I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings."

-"One thing you can count on: You push a man too far, and sooner or later he'll start pushing back."

-"Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far past the point-of-no-return I couldn't even remember what it had looked like when I had passed it."

-"No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking deck of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the Charon was waiting, like the ferryman of the River Styx."

-"Life knows two miseries; getting what you don't want and not getting what you want."

-"Throw the rules out the window, odds are you'll go that way too."

-"The genius of the hole: no matter how long you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant."

-"The trouble with wanting something is the fear of losing it, or never getting it. The thought makes you weak."

-"As surely as the bullet rips through the victim's flesh, organ and bone, it shatters the image of the man who pulls the trigger."

-"When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms, or maybe the place was just too damn lame to be funny."

-"Build your roofs of dead wood. Build your walls of dead stone. Build your dreams of dead thoughts. Comes crying laughing singing back to life. Takes what you steal, and pulls the skin from your dead bones shrieking."

-"The whole world must learn of our peaceful ways, by force!"

-"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

-"Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world."

-"God saves. We spend."

-"Suicide is the only thing you can control in your life. And that's why it's considered a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game."

-"Nothing is foolproof for a sufficiently talented fool."

-"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

-"I’m a visionary; I’m ahead of my time. Trouble is, I’m only about an hour and a half ahead."

-"I've never allowed schooling to get in the way of my education."

-"I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism. But when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress."

-"Nobody deserves to die. But not everyone deserves to live."

-"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

-"To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid."

-"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

-"Scratch any cynic and you'll find a disappointed idealist underneath."

-"You can't have an ethical dilemma if there's no-one left to judge you."

-"Misery is a communicable disease."

-"There is no such thing as cold weather, only the wrong kind of clothing."

-“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

-"Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity."

-"It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

-"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading."

-"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-"The early bird gets the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese."

-"Do you know where the entrances are? Yeah I took a biology class."

-"To live is to suffer. To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

-"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding."

-"Your momma so fat, I buried her and got 99 prayer."

-"That sounds good in practice, but how is it in theory?"

-"Some people say, how can you live without knowing? I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. You know?"

-"I wouldn't have seen it, if I hadn't believed it."

-"When a believer prays to a god to stop a wrong, is it because the deity doesn't know what's happening or because it doesn't know it's wrong?"

-"If you're number one shove it up your ass and make it number two."

-"That's the entire meaning of being a man. Sticking things in places where they don't belong."

-"Ups and downs with the peaks and valleys, I reach my palace and it's in the alley. No cage, more like a jungle. Thoughts run free but my egos humbled."

-"What we lose in the fire, we shall find in the ashes."

-"Spirituality that is expressed, is not spirituality at all."

-"The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization."

-"The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes, an industrial-age machine."

-"I have no enemies, merely topographies of ignorance."

-"It really is of importance, what men do, but also what manner of men are that do it. Among the works of man... the first importance surely is the man himself."

-"Cancer is more than just a genetic disease, it's a highly successful cellular survival at the expense of it's host."

-"The man who tells the truth doesn't have to remember what he said."

-"If God had wanted you to live, he would not have created me."

-"There's a bullet shaped hole inside of my head where the answers should be."

-"He who is brave and patient enough to peer into the darkness his whole life will be the first to see a flicker of light in it."

-"Your free trial of being alive has ended."

-"I'm not honest, but you're really interesting."

-Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity."

-"She's got looks, he's got money. One of them is bound to run out."

-"You chose the road friend. God put me at the end of it."

-"People can't use you if you're useless."

-"I'll never forget the time we met. But I'll keep trying."

-"I don't have the time or the crayons to explain this to you."

-"I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."

-"Lady Luck was a hooker. And I was fresh out of cash."

-"A man's reach should exceed his grasp."

-"Friendship means little when it is convenient."

-"It's been real. It's been fun. But it ain't been real fun."