You say you could never be bored or unhappy with some other person’s life, and yet how different it would be, if it were yours.
Sep 302016
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Sep 232016
You never violate your principles: you only discover that they are not what you thought they were.
Sep 122016
To study ethics, read fiction, not philosophy.
Sep 052016
So many selves, so little to express.
Aug 232016
For himself a man will go only so far. To stop at nothing, discard every scruple, he must be convinced that he will make a better world.
Aug 122016
Without disgust there is nothing to tolerate or to forgive.
Jul 042016
1. Summarize yourself in three words.
2. Prefix them with “aging.”
3. Repeat until the result is not embarrassing.
Jun 302016
Matter makes space, and clocks make time.
Jun 072016
What we call maturity is mostly fatigue.
May 262016
You can’t always get what you want; you can’t always get what you need; but you can, perhaps, want what you need.