Philosophy is a dead-man’s game: putting Descartes before the hearse.
                                     —Timothy Hallinan.

You cannot love both truth and authority. You have to choose, without dogmas, often rethinking your own premises.
         —George Gomori, on the philosophy of Leszek Kolakowski.

Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception, so that I may know only reality.
             —Bill Hicks’ last words on his last album, Rant in E Minor.

When we think of the future, devils laugh.
                                     —Japanese proverb.

It’s like Mogadishu, without the sunshine.
                                     —Tibor Fischer on living in London, 2004.

These days our private parts aren’t our major source of trouble; it’s our wallets we can’t keep in our pants.
               —Walter Kirn, NY Times Book Review, January 25. 2004.

This is not the America I chose to be my home.
      —George Soros, in The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004).