Brother Theodore Quotes

I am what you might call a controversial figure: people either hate me or despise me.

Years and years of marriage prepared me for years and years of divorce.

I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me. And neither of us liked what we saw.

I foretell the future. I predict the past. I don't need a crystal ball; a football, a tennis ball, a moth ball, any old ball will do. When the power is upon me, there is no holding me back, I just let loose and prophesy all over the place.

I find it hard to sit still in one spot, and impossible to sit still in two spots.

My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.

Ladies and gentlemen, I resent this applause.

All our great spiritual leaders are dead. Moses is dead, Muhammad is dead, Buddha is dead, the Reverend Jim Jones is dead, and I'm not feeling so hot myself!

I never answer my telephone unless it rings.

Only what we have lost forever, we possess forever. Only where there are graves, are there resurrections. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness, shall we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off, shall we truly dance.

Lately, I've become quite involved in psychic vibrations. I vibrate whenever I get the chance.

As long as there is death, there is hope. The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

My mumsie and my popsie both died years before I was born, and my sister and my uncle were identical twins, which is probably more than you can say for yourself.

I am squirming with delight to meet an intellectual colossus.

If only the Earth would open and swallow you up.