How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.