What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.