I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.