“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.”

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

The madman is a dreamer awake.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.

Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

You’re going against the government of the United States. You don’t beat a federal court, a federal judge, and the FBI – there’s no way.