You can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

There’s the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day – playdates, doctors‘ appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

‚I’ll be back‘ always sounded a little girly to me.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.