It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Brave old world.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.Part of me wants to run away and be free.I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.