You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.