The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.

It is the body-complex that eats and one just does the egoism of ‘I ate.’ He is not aware that there is another entity. One simply takes on the suffering of another.

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.