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Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

A consistência é o parque de diversões das mentes entorpecidas.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

What's the difference, I wondered, between a ghost and a memory?

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

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Indeed, many of the recommendations in this book are controversial. You will probably not agree with all of them.

The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.

In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too,—and at the same time.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

We might define art as anything which pushes our thoughts in important yet neglected directions.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

it is strangely beautiful and arresting.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

Well, 'Problematic' was the opposite of a show that was nostalgic and a light fluffy look at life. We were literally trying to kick a hornets' nest, and I don't know how effectively we did or didn't do that.

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?