People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes.

You can't possibly spend a lifetime with anybody and know them.

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.

You don't have to be big to be great.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.