From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it’s going.
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way – the industrial, urbanized, herding way – to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.
Life is hard if you think it’s hard.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as ‘common sense’ has never produced anything worth celebrating.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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.