The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

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.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.

In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.

No one is born with hate in their heart.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.