"If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings."

“True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live”

“I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.”

Source : "Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl tell The Ugly Truth". Interview with Lynn Barker, www.sheknows.com. July 21, 2009.

“And the time will come when you see we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.”

“Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.”

“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”

“Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.”

“I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!”

Source : David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, Routledge

“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.”