“Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic”

“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”

“Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.”

“If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?”

“I laughed. ‘It’s a cellar Phil, calling it your recording studio does not make that sentence any less creepy.”

“In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word "maverick" is someone who skirts the edge of sanity--or is so insane as to appear sane--who then does something absolutely insane and yet, after the passage of time, and especially if the maverick's creation yields a profit of any kind, is deemed less and less insane until the maverick worms his or her way into the fibers of history. Then generations grow to envy the ingenuity and courage of the maverick while glossing over the maverick's genetic kookiness. On such shoulders, a country rises.”