Where there is society there is no need for charity.

Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.

Human rights don't trickle down.

Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least

Where there is society, there is no need for charity.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live".

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

I heard you laughing, ' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.

When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.