Online life is about premeditation.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.