Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

Healthy home, healthy life.

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Life always brings you what you need.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.