Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

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.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood