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... {W}e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth - filled man,...

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop - out,...

Don't forget to wonder and appreciate yourself.

Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom.

Bells ringing with no sound Laughter with no voice Happiness lost without being found Making love with no noise

{Brodsky} loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

My heart is like a singing bird.

Literature is pure artifice, but great literature manages to disguise it and mediocre literature betrays it.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

And though you understand the pecking order and respect the judge-and even if the judge says "Great argument, Counselor Kaling, the court concurs"-you also just want to not have to plead your case all...

Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.

In short, he must be loyal only to his art.

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and...

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

A bullet hole in my bedroom door was a grim reminder of December 7, 1941, and of an entire nation which had not been sufficiently awake…

But he knew plenty of distracting sinkholes too: gossip, the endless call of work, as well as fear, suspicion, lust. Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are...

That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.

'Should we plan our escape route now?' I asked. She laughed. 'We'll push Cahil into their path to slow them down.'

Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your...

O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got...

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen. Oh! My desk. I could've sat at my desk. I could've sat at your desk. No. It's a vid set. Even then, no.

Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow,...

I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way:...

They yearn for what they fear for.