philosophy

"Playing Godzilla for GODZILLA - KING OF THE MONSTERS was very difficult. Playing Rodan also was difficult because the legs of birds, unlike those of human beings, bend backward."

"What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises."

"I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended hav…"

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired: for in the course of things, men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers; but if you would once…"

"The duality of existence is completely contradictory to all available scientific training and human experience. Again, the ultimate proof of such affirmation is to experience one's self in this state …"

"I have participated in numerous private and public debates about gay marriage, and all too often some wise guy asks ‘If marriage between two men is OK, why not allow marriage between a man and a goat?…"

"You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox."

"Sometimes, Delores, you have to be a high riding bitch in order to survive, because being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to."

"Fast, truly exciting cars are being killed off so that pretty soon the officers will all be gone, leaving us with a field full of enlisted men."

"Even Plato assumes that the genuinely perfect condition of man means no sex distinction . He assumes that originally there was only the masculine , but through degeneration and corruption the feminine…"

"How can an opera express this complicated question of bedsheets?"

"When reason rules, money is a blessing."

"Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a m…"

"And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream."

"They raise the question of whether I’ve been crazy, and am suddenly sane, or whether I’ve been sane up to now, and have suddenly gone crazy."

"The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation."

"By sharing it grows/ By giving it up it nurtures/ By dying it deepens./ By being it becomes."

"the teaching of my philosophy... that our whole existence is something which had better not have been, and that to disown and disclaim it is the highest wisdom."

"Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder."

"We speak of a person being “under the influence” of alcohol, or heroin, or amphetamine, and believe that these substances affect him so profoundly as to render him utterly helpless in their grip. We t…"