How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.