Don’t just chase money—chase excellence, and money will follow.

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.