If you're offended, it's your problem.

Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.