If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.