Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.

I love a selfie in the mirror.

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.