“That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.”

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“Vainglory and curiosity are the twin scourges of our souls. The former makes us stick our noses into everything: the latter forbids us to leave anything unresolved or undecided.”

“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.”

“To philosophize is to learn to die”

“It is as though our very touch bore infection: things which in themselves are good and beautiful are corrupted by our handling of them.”

“The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.”

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”

“[What best becomes a man is whatever is most peculiarly his own.] [B]”

“The way of truth is one and artless: the way of private gain and success in such affairs as we are entrusted with is double, uneven and fortuitous. I”

“We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.”

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”

“Open talk opens the way to further talk, as wine does or love.”

“Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.”

“If you walk on stilts, you're still walking on your feet. If you sit on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your ass.”

“As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that”

“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."

“We are never at home, we are always beyond. Fear, desire, hope, project us toward the future and steal from us the consideration of what is, to busy us with what will be, even when we shall no longer be."