“The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.”

“it doesn't care too much if it's from the 60's or from last year - it's kind of the same thing [in his paintings].... apparently there are certain structures, certain ways of organizing a painting that's there, that I'm born with as a painter.”

“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.”

“Roberto Clemente doesn't care too much for New York. Says there are too many people and everybody is in too much of a hurry. He had one ride on the subway with Felipe Montemayor as his guide and they got lost.”

“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There’s no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there’s no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.”

“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.”

“Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”