Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important...
it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.
It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
If this world were an infinite plan and sailing to the East we could always reach new distances and discover sweeter and newer things than all the cyclades or the islands of King Solomon, then the...
I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information,...
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....
If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.
The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
Josh grins. Just give me your hand.W-what?Your hand, he repeats. Give it to me.I extend my shaking right hand. And-in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true-Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers...
You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.
I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours...
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to...
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.
Sitting in his office, he made a nice mathematical model, and it never occurred to him that what he saw as defects were actually necessities. Look: when I was working on missiles, we dealt with...
Can you tell me anything? It's a bioengineering firm. Bioengineering, Barney said. Well, there's the obvious … Which is? A DNA molecule. Oh, come on, Nedry said. Nobody could be analyzing a DNA...
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few...
In the Damascus airport she had been humiliated by what she was assumed to be, and when she returned home, she felt angry because of what she could have been.
Whoever we were-and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not, whether we observed certain religious norms or not-we had become the figment of...
I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state of affairs was not that you did not get to do what you wanted---sometimes you...
It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table.
A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale...
But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look.
Every education brings a point of reckoning, and this was his: seeing the world divided in two camps, the investigators and the sweeteners
you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.
If people came at you and started to scratch you, then of course you had the right to sit on them.
Being loved and admired by a man like that-and she knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her-was like walking in the sunshine;...
{Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her…}...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
