Put in your pipe, and smoke it

I never knew what sad work the reading of old - letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as happy as letters could be - at least those early letters were....

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do...

The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house.

I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are 'mentioned'. There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an...

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it {whatever it is} until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of...

I actually had to close my eyes, rub them

Relationships and marriages are hard enough, but you add war into the mix and small fissures become gaping wounds. No one sees what you're seeing - again that clear-eyed, unbiased thing - except your...

As a soldier, you don't stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both...

They're politicians,' Win said. 'They'd lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

If you don't laugh at yourself, who will you laugh at?

Most people I’ve spoken to have no idea that they are capable of controlling every single thought that comes into their minds: every second, every minute, and every day. They are convinced that...

But the real key to remember is that happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Only when we deeply and emotionally realize that life is short and that our time is limited, can we truly live fully and completely surrender to the present. If you had only one year left to live, I...

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others, but rather strive to be superior to their own selves.

This wasn't a hunger for a bigger house or a faster car. This was a far deeper hunger: a hunger for living with more meaning, with more festivity and more satisfaction.

Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do.

When spider webs unite, they tie up a lion.

When my son was growing up, he constantly asked me to give him piggyback rides. Though I knew how much he loved them, I was always too busy to play with him. I had reports to read or meetings to...

vigorous walking in natural surroundings

Hi. I'm Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I'm a rich and...

his legs where the bones had been broken

The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of...

my intention that people will feel like throttling her