“They were unbalanced, emotional, hysterical, bigoted, hateful, loving, and insane.”

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

“Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love.”

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

“It was part of Rousseau’s vanity that he believed himself incapable of base emotions. ‘I feel too superior to hate.’ ‘I love myself too much to hate anybody.”

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

“When I used my real name, all of a sudden there was a lot of commentary. 'Oh, you're a woman' or 'You can't really be a woman' or 'You don't write like a woman.' Or all of a sudden my arguments were not taken as seriously or were judged as hysterical or emotional…. So I got much more interested in why this was happening.”

“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

“The revolutionary knows that we cannot love our people without hating those who destroy us. All true emotion has opposite poles.”

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”