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.

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.

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

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.