The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands, ' knew Schopenhauer.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Emotions are the color of the soul.

Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.