You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.