Non-fiction / Writer without a Cause (part 3)

It is important to laugh at yourself. If you don’t do it others will do it for you.

That something is relatively permanent doesn’t mean it doesn’t change. The moon has phases and eclipses – so does fatherhood, motherhood, etc.

To be able to see what things have in common enables you to see what they don’t. However advantageous it might be, it has the terrible disadvantage of seeing just how common everybody is and how all their talk revolves around two or three subjects.

Take yourself more seriously than others tell you but less seriously than you tell yourself.

If you can count the times you had sex you hadn’t had enough.

Childhood is adulthood without pretension.

There are two ways to express something original. Either by saying something very stupid or very profound – and the former is more difficult than the latter.

For most people the abnormal and the unnatural are matters of statistics.

Wear the latest fashion you are called a fashion victim. Do not wear it, and you are called old-fashioned.

Going back to biological food. Where had we been so far?

Being innocent because of ignorance, is charming only to those who have lost theirs.

If all people were innocent no one would know it.

Those who are not interesting, try to be good.

Against crude estimations of flight – Some people do not fly high enough, not because they are weak, but because they do not have the appropriate wings. In dense woodlands, manoeuvrability is more important than height. If one is only good at soaring, he is a good soarer, not a good flier.

Icarus as the involuntary Herostratus – Nobody remembers Daedalus. People are more prone to remember those who flew and fell, – to their level.

Some people being unable to find something for which they want to be free, wander the world in search for chains. They are good at breaking them, but can’t do without them.

We know our brains are more active when asleep, yet teachers insist we don’t sleep during lectures.

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