Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.