Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
"A good story is one that stays with you long after you've finished reading it."
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.