Do not be the sort of person who, if he did not exist, would have to be invented.
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
A quest for the exotic is always rooted in contempt for the familiar.
If luck did not exist, it would be necessary for men, to live together in society, to invent it.
The fault is not in our phones, but in ourselves.
If the rich and accomplished were swine, they would be envied less. As it is, they are envied for being rich, accomplished, and not swine.
One’s former selves ought to be labeled with subscripts for the year, like isotopes with their atomic weights.
The writer who does not disappoint in person has left too little of himself on the page.
Some feel a small secret joy when breaking a rule, others when following one.
Bad behavior is caused by the desire to behave badly.
That we live in a simulation no one doubts. The only point at issue is whose.