That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.
When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.
To think of losing is to lose already.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.
Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.