“The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.”

“In his mothers honor, vowing not to commit the fashionable stupidity of ignoring things he didnt understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams ...”

“Well, enough of this introspection. Its depressing, quite frankly.”

“Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his se...”

“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasnt inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that spirit, however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experie...”

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a zoom lens effect, in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclu...”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he useless...”

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it foreve...”

“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”

“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullsh...”

“Sane is boring.”

“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”