"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West (1892-1980)

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.