The human spirit is frail. People believe whatever they need to believe. I feel sorry for all of them.
There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.
If anyone tells you he’s from New Orleans and doesn’t drink, he’s probably not from New Orleans. Louisiana is not a state; it’s an outdoor mental asylum in which millions of people stay bombed most of their lives. That’s not an exaggeration. Cirrhosis is a family heirloom.
Hope was the light that allowed man to prevail in the worst of circumstances. But it also could become the narcotic of the self-deluded and the naive.
What happens outside of us doesn’t count. That’s something we don’t have control over. It’s what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that’s important.
Prosecutors often wince when they have to take a child abuser to trial, because usually the only witnesses they can use are children who are terrified at the prospect of testifying against their parents.
Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.
The reason people don’t buy conspiracy theories is they think ‘conspiracy’ means everybody’s on the same program. That’s not how it works. Everybody’s got a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebody’s wife.
Thinking at night isn’t good for anybody.
You don’t have anything, you don’t know anything, you’re just a noise like a fart in somebody’s pants,” Segura said.
Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it’s not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.
Sometimes when that kind of evil comes into our lives, we can’t explain it, so we blame it on God or ourselves. In both cases we’re wrong. Maybe it’s time you let yourself out of prison.
I had to feel sorry for Bubba’s wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others.
People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.
There are not many places left in the United States where people can get off the computer, stop filing tax returns, and in effect become invisible. The rain forests in the Cascades and parts of West Montana come to mind, and perhaps the ‘Glades still offer hope to those who wish to resign from modern times. The other place is the Atchafalaya Basin.
A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Cruelty and sentimentality are almost always companion characteristics in an individual but never cruelty and love.
When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.
Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.
Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now.