#wisdom

"Excuse The bureaucrat's excuse, 'If I have to make an exception for you,I have to make an exception for everybody else',doesn't apply to me because I exceptional."

"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute"

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

"Got Hate? When a hater cozily whispers shit in your ear about them,what does that say about you?"

"Simply Fabulous Haiku If I write fablesam I a fabulist orsimply fabulous?"

"Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred."

"Fodder for Poets [10w] Childhood memories are the most seminal sustenance for creating poetry."

"Money vs. Happiness [10w] Why do people with money say,'money can't buy happiness'?"

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"You're Totally Fucked' Defined [10w] What's before you is hopeless and behind you is negligible."

"Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling."

"Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature."

"I’d rather have 100% of 5 than 50% of 10—especially with love."

"Writer's Block [10w] Every writer's block is surrounded by a million other possibilities."

"He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew."

"من نمّ لك نمّ بك, ومن نقل إليك نقل عنك, ومن إذا أرضيته فقال ماليس فيك, كذلك إذا أغضبته قال فيك ماليس فيك."

"I wouldn’t feel great if you left me alone, but I wouldn’t feel bad either. I’d feel good, like I always do, which has nothing to do with you, even if you’ll have nothing to do with me."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"Enemies of My Enemies Who knew the enemies of my enemies were good dancers."

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."