Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.