The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Whom God blesses he gives assignment

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

You're rich if you've had a meal today.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.