This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
To travel is to live.
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Hardships make or break people.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!