What is real is beyond all reach.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.