Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

I beg your pardon I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.

No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Train, don't strain.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.