Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.