If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

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.

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.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

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

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.