Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.
The most beautiful quality of a true friendship is to understand them. Be understood with absolute clarity.
Memory gives moments immortality, but forgetfulness promotes a healthy mind. It’s good to forget.
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
We don’t get wiser as we get older, but we do learn to avoid or raise a certain amount of hell, depending on which we prefer.[to Abigail]
Not only is justice blind, it’s mindless and heartless.
Madness can be a medicine for the modern world. You take it in moderation, it’s beneficial.
I’ve always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty, and art, and horror of everything this world has to offer.
Fate has a habit of not letting us choose our own endings.
You cannot preserve entropy. It gradually descends into disorder.
Without remembering, you’re seized by something imagined.
When it comes to nature versus nurture, I choose neither. We are built from a DNA blueprint and born into a world of scenario and circumstance we don’t control.
