I do not particularly like the word "work." Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think this is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living,...

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less but it is so much beautiful if humanity takes much from you, it is an investment into life.

The question isn't Why do we die? The question is Why do we live?

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life - - is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

I'd die for your sins, but I'd probably enjoy them first

We spent all our lives for things and not dedicate the things that await us.

The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.

Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling {or even calligraphy} is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

Freemasonry is relevant as much as the actions of Freemasons are meaningful.

True affluence is not needing anything.

The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt...

No god craves weaklings.

Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.

And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt. It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on...

There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.

Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices

It is so damn difficult to be simple.

There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life.

Boredom is for the selfish.

Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere

We see the world as less random than it actually is.

Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, larger phenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease of time; life, again, a disease of matter. Then what is normal, what is healthy?...

"Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual...