The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead.