We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it’s the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is

Every thought precedes an action.

I'll only tell you what matters. And, the truth is, everything matters.

It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

People are responsible for their own joy.

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.