The Lord replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

I'm the type of guy who wants to make every play.

All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.