If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world.

work. play. passion.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.