Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them." -Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.