37 Quotes by Adam Levin

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

Ashamed is just grateful waiting to happen. You only taste your dignity right before you puke it up.

...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

Some men so needfully require complication, they find themselves defending their enemies.

Being humiliated only makes it easier to restrain you. And being restrained makes it possible to torture you, for the unrestrained cannot be tortured; the unrestrained can only be fought. So to be restrained is to be unable to fight, and to be humiliated is to be readied for torture. To know you have been readied for torture is to await torture. And to await torture is, itself, torture.

It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Our plastic muskets, though powderless, will frontload, and our coup will not be bloodless, nor will the blood be lambly. It will stain the lion's den whose bars though invisible are verily there as well roll along, doo-da doo-da and a thousand lonely dirges.