Don't be too hard on the envious. Be glad you have, or had in the past, something enviable. - Susan Sontag

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

Jerking off the universe is perhaps what all philosophy, all abstract thought is about: an intense, and not very sociable pleasure, which has to be repeated again and again.

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.