..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.
Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.
I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis.
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful
In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.
It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and , a corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Nothing in this world feels quite like freedom, except for freedom. And nothing in the world tastes quite like freedom, except for fried bald eagles.
What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.
You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.
During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.
But [Coca-Cola] was also genuinely welcomed by the servicemen in far-flung military bases: Coca-Cola reminded them of home and helped to maintain morale.
An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.
