If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

Perception of a state is not the state.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

God’s plan is for every believer to be married to Christ

I'm addicted to directing!

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.