I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Then why don't I tell on him?If they don't, why don't I?Because.Because I am safe this way, silent unnoticed.

Humor is very healing.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren't actually real.