There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan