“They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”

The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

An armed society is a polite society.

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.

Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.

It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.

But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn’t turn out the way I wanted.

Discipline says, ‘I need to.’ Duty says, ‘I ought to.’ Devotion says, ‘I want to.’

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.

And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want.

I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.