The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Be first the master of yourself

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.