Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

I've never been good at sharing my toys.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.

Never outgrow your imagination.

In understanding the basics of digestion, you'll discover who's in charge. Here's a hint. It's not you.

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.