The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.