A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.
Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.
A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.
You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.
I have a thing for things that last.
The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.
The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.’