Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.