What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

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.

Could he be prosecuted for murder? Cause of death: broken heart. Murder weapon: words laced with bullshit.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

Don't talk yourself into not being you.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile.

The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left.

A simple life is its own reward.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.