There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?