Your petal from the salty rose.
Beer’s nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.
Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness.
Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space.
In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.
Not surprisingly, the socks remain silent, as was their legal right.
As they say in my country, have a nice day.
Kudra was amused by Alobar’s tentative polka until her eyes fell upon the tumescent protrusion dancing with him. Disgusting she thought. An erection is just inappropriate. Then she realized with a shock that she was so wet that children could have sailed toy boats in her underpants.
If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of “is” and “it.
To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.
Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it’s still living in Paris in the thirties.
He worked too hard, smiled too little and dined as one indifferent to both flavor and fate; he clearly was a hero in need of rescue by a princess.
Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.
Alcoholism is an imperfect spiritual longing.
Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.
On second thought, it’s unlikely that anybody can teach another to excel in bed. Rather, what they might do is awaken in the other her or his predisposition for copulative excellence.
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.