To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we’ve forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That’s why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
If you’re honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you’re forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
His voice wore no pants.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren’t the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.
The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful...
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
The Middle Ages hangs over history’s belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.
Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.