The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.

Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.