In nature we never repeat the same motion; in captivity (office, gym, commute, sports), life is just repetitive-stress injury. No randomness.

Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. –

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.*

The most depressing aspect of the lives of the couples you watch surreptitiously arguing in restaurants is that they are almost always unaware of the true subject of argument. –

You are alive in inverse proportion to the density of clichés in your writing.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.