I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It's a different way to have fun.
Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?