The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

One always expects something else.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

May God grant children who will fear and revered Him.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.