It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

This is a business, and I'll deal with it when it comes. If it comes, it comes.

We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

You get what you earn.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.