Quotes

“What people are going to read is, "It's about a pathetic schizophrenic who made a crappy operating system." My perspective is, "God said I made His temple"”

“It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar—when the city sleeps but you don't, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity”

“Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense”

“When I think about it, I have no idea who you are, but that's not important, what matters is that we care about each other.”

“If your life is empty, God starts adding clairvoyance”

“Under the law, people accused of crimes are presumed innocent, but some—we know— are presumed more innocent than others”

“A civilization that cannot see the sun and starts will be without religion.”

“There is a problem — this is profound, okay. The modern world is very busy... You had downtime in the old world. Today you turn on a television, or whatever, you stay busy”

“We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”

“Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?”

“Western man had relearned—what the rest of the world had never forgotten—that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth”

“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat”

“When someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don't say we're sorry. We promise to make amends”

“People endure a good deal in war...They'll send their sons out in unlimited numbers to die horribly on broken spaceships. They'll bear up under enemy bombardment, if it means they have to live on stale bread and foul water in caves half a mile deep. But it's very hard to bear up under little things when the patriotic uplift of imminent danger is not present.”