Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

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.

love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

An abundant life is one where we are physically strong, mentally sound, and spiritually aflame. I

In any situation, there is hope. Don’t give! Be strong!

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

For me, there is safety in playing a woman that is very sexualized and having a woman direct you with that.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.