The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

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.

We can all achieve bigger and better things in life if we adopt the willingness to push harder and longer with faith.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.