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.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.