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.

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.

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.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Be yourself and original. You would be appreciated ultimately.

There was a time when Men functioned through the mind and Women from their heart, now its Men who feel more and women think more...

We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Boy, do I hate to lose.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.