Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.