Anthony Marais

“From our myopia arose our dystopia.”

— Anthony Marais

“A joke is a question of mind over manner.”

— Anthony Marais

“Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.”

— Anthony Marais

“Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.”

— Anthony Marais

“There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.”

— Anthony Marais

“When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don’t scratch it!”

— Anthony Marais

“We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.”

— Anthony Marais

“Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.”

— Anthony Marais

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

— Anthony Marais

“It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a…

— Anthony Marais

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”

— Anthony Marais

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been…

— Anthony Marais

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

— Anthony Marais

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

— Anthony Marais

“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!”

— Anthony Marais

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

— Anthony Marais

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

— Anthony Marais

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

— Anthony Marais

“Somethingism is better than nihilism.”

— Anthony Marais

“Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.”

— Anthony Marais

“Laughing is the body’s approval of the absurd.”

— Anthony Marais

“Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.”

— Anthony Marais

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

— Anthony Marais

“We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.”

— Anthony Marais

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

— Anthony Marais

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

— Anthony Marais

“If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite.”

— Anthony Marais