"All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from."

"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."

"I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care."

"There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits."

"A life well-lived is a testament that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."