“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.”

“How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?”

“Like many others, I came to philosophy to study matters of life and death, and was taught that professionalization required forgetting them. The more I learned, the more I grew convinced of the opposite: the history of philosophy was indeed animated by the questions that drew us there”

“Every word I never spoke dies like a spark smothered in smoke pulled from the glow of a shitty cigarette.”

“I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.”

“Morality is the beauty of Philosophy.”

“Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.”

“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”