"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."