"A genius is just a mentally ill person with an audience."

"I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don’t have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruit…"

"When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Lif…"

"I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian."

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."