I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

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.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

Stop proving to others that you are a victim. No one cares!

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Paul Scholes is literally on another planet

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.