What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

All men want their whores to be unhappy.