What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.