because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance.

Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

If you believe in free will, why don't you have confidence in people to use it? Why do you want a government, or whoever, regulating them, if you believe in it?

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

What I hate is leather leggings and an ankle boot. I hate the line.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.