A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

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.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?