In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).

You cannot heal what you will not unveil.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.