The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.