In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

You’ve got to have confidence in the very thing that makes you unique – then wait for the world to catch up

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.