#wisdom

"We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors."

"Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch."

"How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so."

"Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions."

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door"

"With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying."

"Whose Asphalt Is It? [10w] The road to mediocrity is paved with asphalt and tarmac."

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

"Go with your Gut Our eyes, our mind plays tricks.Our love muscle, our heartchooses blindly and impulsively.But our gut,ahh, our gut,always makes the wise choice ~and goes straight for the burning hot pocketsfresh out of the microwavebecause our mouthsahh, our mouths,never needed a roof in the first place."

"A Suicide's Regret "I cut my vein in vain;blood slowly oozes out.I should've cut an arteryand watch it spurt and spout."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men."

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."

"Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"- which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET."- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."

"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."

"Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty."

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

"I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works."