Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

Layout your options, create a beautiful masterpiece of yours.

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

I am seeing change at earlier stage start-up companies. For a lot of big companies, the ship has sailed. They are trying to bolt on diversity and inclusion.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

All art is propaganda.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.