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.

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

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

In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan.

Life is full of great opportunities.

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.