"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

"The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law."

"Stop thinking, and end your problems."

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."

"Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it."

"How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony."

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

"Knowledge is true opinion."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."