Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

I do not doubt your intellectual or spiritual equality with me, mate. When I saw you belong to me, it is only because I belong so utterly to you, as well.

Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.