"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives."

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future."

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."

"On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

"The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty."

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

"When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion."

"He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze."

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."