“Idleness and idolatry aren't related but they ought to be.”

“Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.”

“Lessons in life are context specific. Contexts are never the same. If there are no lessons you can use does that mean there are actually no lessons”

“The relation to the other is not epistemological, but ethical, and the whole attempt to accomodate or account for the other within the confines of my experience already constitutes a breach of this fundamental ethical relation. The other is precisely that which cannot be the object of my experience in the sense of being completely manifest within it, and so cannot be construed as a phenomenon at all.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Dow”

“...she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.”

“if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!”