“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.”

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”

“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”