"An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death."

“Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California,”

Source : "Rob Ford tape - full text: Toronto's Mayor at an Etobicoke bar disparaging Karen Stintz, Tim Hudak and Italians". Transcript of an audio tape, nationalpost.com. April 30, 2014.

“Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.”

Source : Jim Cymbala (2008). “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”, p.146, Zondervan

“I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.”

“There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.”

“I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If you stay home with the candlelight and you read a book, Rilke, or whatever, or Sigmund Freud, it's boring. But if you watch Udo Kier in a horror film and people are hunting me and trying to kill me, and there's my love interest with big breasts and beautiful hair, and I believe in her and they kill me at the end, that's more interesting. We're talking about films here. We're not talking about writing stories.”

“I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.”

“It's like a mathematical law, Grace.”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”