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.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

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

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

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

Too much apology doubles the offense.

There are silences harder to take back than words.