Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

God is a creator, not a law giver.