At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

To think too much is a disease.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

And I met your baby moms last night. We took a picture together, I hope she frames it. And I was drinking at the Palms last night. And ended up losing everything that I came with.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.