The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.
You get to decide what to worship.
Whitney Houston was a laser beam. . . She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.
Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
When you sing, always tell the truth.
The near-term attacks. . . will either rival or exceed the 911 attacks. . . And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.