Without mathematics, we are blind.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

What’s wealth but the means of expanding one’s life? There’s two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.

I don’t want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can’t have.

The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!