Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.