Month: November 2020

Before you are too old, read your favorite book and take notes in the margins. Whatever comes to your mind. The more marginalia, the better. Then put that book aside and don’t look at it for 10 years. After a decade, open the book, read it once more … and read your younger self reading the book. That — more than any photograph could — will show you who you were.

Don’t do heroin: That shit will kill you.

The last person in the world who finds happiness is the one who seeks it.

We are the objects we collect, which possess the life we give them.

If you don’t want to be a professional painter, don’t take painting lessons.

The past is gravity. The present, friction. The future, inertia. To become ourselves, we must overcome all the forces whose names we learned in grade school.

Don’t make a penis joke unless you’re a professional comedian. It’s hard. See?

When it comes to foot exfoliation, nothing is better than a dog. I’ve heard.

Almost no topic of conversation is more important and yet more objectionable than weather.

You are probably not the person you were 10 years ago, but you are almost certainly still the person you were yesterday. Change is certain but slow.