Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
Cats didn’t start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature’s Survival Course.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.
If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he’s got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.