Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.

Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.

I am a victim of my own behavior.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.