Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour

Love is unconditional selflessness

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

Pretend and it will be true.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

Well, that's a 'fresher'. I'm going on break.

I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens.