Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.