Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.