If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

...Realization is born from error...

You keep right on building that fence, Faye. See what good it does you.

Amazing things start happening when we start praying!

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Music always brings great things and makes me meet amazing people. It's amazing.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.