Category: Aphorisms

You’re not the first person to realize the man in “You’re So Vain” is right to think that song is about him.

Life is beautiful, and it is sad — and its beauty and sadness have nothing to do with each other.

The man who knows exactly how many times he has had sex hasn’t had enough sex.

What matters is not the number of one’s errors but the longevity of one’s triumphs.

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.