Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.
When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.
Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.
The idealist regards facts as provisional.
Some live in a state of passionate indecision.
Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.
I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.