I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don’t think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice

Don’t worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t forget who you are

Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST.

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

And when you finish reading, read some more.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

Apart from golf, it was a great week.