As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.

Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

There is no greater fulfillment than living with a positive mind and a heart full of unconditional self-love.

God tells you where to look

There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

[Donald] Trump is now. And we don't know what the rules are now.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.