You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

A lazy person will never grow wealthy.

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.

I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.