Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction

The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

This is my greatest desire, to move heavenly onward.

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.