We need useless theory more than ever today.

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.

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.