Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

“There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl,” ... “Except yours.”