Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.
Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I'm mostly writing code, I'm on the laptop, and if I'm mostly drawing, I'm on the Cintiq.
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.