Two-thirds of earth’s surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.
We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.
You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.
It’s all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it’s pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.
Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
And as we live our lives we discover – drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each – what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.
Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us.
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence – in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell – our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn’t solve a thing.
Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
While they’re still alive, people can become ghosts.
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.
Cell phones are so convenient that they’re an inconvenience.
Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.
Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.