As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?