I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Greatness must be measured by the transfer of success to future generations

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.