Sophistication is upscale conformity.

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.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

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.

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

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.