Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

The possibility of pain is where love stems from

Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.