If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

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.

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.

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

Enjoy the sacred moment while it lingers.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.