Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
