I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.