I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned...

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson–or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter–has come up with.

…the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist...

No matter how Beautiful something may seem to be. You do not know the Ugly that lurks inside.

In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of...

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

…a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing …

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people...

I wouldn’t say I’m superficial, just averagely ficial.

Actors,” he says, “should only be superficial on the surface.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the...

If I must choose, I’d rather be tuned in than ‘turnt up’.

For the longest time I couldn’t understand the meaning of the cliche “being compatible” – whether about a lover, colleague, team mate or friend. I now get it. There is so much more behind this...

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always...

People care much more for how things look than how things are.