If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

What was once my FUTURE is now my PAST

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet.

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.