I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

I have no human feelings.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I’m addicted to placebos.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.