Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.