Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it’s the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything