The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

I am a great believe that your humor is developed at a very early age and it doesn't ever change.

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.