A proof of a proposition is a process the nature of which is such as to produce in us a belief in that proposition.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Generally speaking, envy, resentment, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts.Self-pity gets fairly close to paranoia, and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse.

我不让恐惧控制我，我控制恐惧。