It’s still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don’t know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
If you’re afraid to die, you’re afraid to live. You can’t have one without the other.
I’ve got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Dean: Don’t you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn’t this disturb you my dear? After all, it’s not normal. Molly: I know it’s not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I’m happy.
One thing Mom taught me, “You’re going to be dead a long time, so do it now!”
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I’ve built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don’t hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn’t. They’re too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don’t in England.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
I began to wonder if girls could marry girls, because I was sure I wanted to marry Leota and look in her green eyes forever. But I would only marry her if I didn’t have to do the housework. I was certain of that. But if Leota really didn’t want to do it either, I guessed I’d do it. I’d do anything for Leota.
That’s all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there.
No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?
My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.
The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain. Passion. Find your passions. The.
The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it’s not about taxes; it’s about congressmen distributing the pork.