We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

You are one brave woman, " he whispers, "I am in awe of you.

All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

I like the concept that if you’re with someone, it’s for the long term.