It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures

FYI, it isn’t how I suspected. If you eat enough Cheetos you will NOT actually poop an extra-large Cheeto.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.