“What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.”

“Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type.”

“What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.”

“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is ...”

“It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and ...”

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”

“I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who g...”

“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honestfractionally more brave, one might sayabout that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples tha...”

“Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant”

“The child-like, gum-chewing navet , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,...”

“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.”

“I just do art because Im ugly and theres nothing else for me to do.”

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when youre so ugly on the inside?”

“You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.”

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”