Neel Burton

"The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude."

"The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened."

"One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both."

"It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made."

"An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone."

"Resentment is a powerful and corrosive force, both on the slippery left and the slippery right, and the history of humankind can largely be read as a history of resentment. Aside from a profound philosophy of capital, what we really need is a profound psychology and philosophy of resentment. We must learn to live for ourselves, without reference to the other, and, at the same time, to rise above and beyond ourselves. Or else history will keep repeating itself, and our life will be a living death."

"Of all funny things, truth is the funniest."

"Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late."

"My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that."

"The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education."

"Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available."

"Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking."