You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
For God’s sake,′ the dog is saying, ’open the universe a little more!
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was “broken.
That’s the struggle of humanity, to recruit others to your version of what’s real.
Therefore we didn’t talk of genuine things.
Did I say that the world had never had better color? I left something out of account, a limping, crippled consideration which seems to lose ground as you reach beauty and Orizaba flowers, but soon you find it has preceded you.
If love is love, it’s free.
You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.
Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody’s business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them.
Oh, God,” Wilhelm prayed, “Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.
Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.
So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...
He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.
To rip off a piece of lover’s temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
I don’t know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When it was time to have them, there was no telling how I picked them from the air.
There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That’s how you can tell it’s valuable.