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.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.