For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

The best plans are always the simplest.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

Another one of your quippy japes?

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.