Brother Theodore

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

“If only the Earth would open and swallow you up.”

“I never answer my telephone unless it rings.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“Ladies and gentlemen, I resent this applause.”

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

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

“I am squirming with delight to meet an intellectual colossus.”

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

“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.”