He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.