It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.