I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

Thing in Everything

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

I am becoming the people I love.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.