Better reap two days too soon than one too late.
To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
It is better if you could say "Here he ran away" than "Here he was killed."
It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them.
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.
One day before you is better than ten years behind you.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Are you OK with pissing people off to succeed? Because that’s what will happen. Success pisses off the unsuccessful.
It was one thing to jack off. It was another thing to jack off and not secure your shit before you opened a goddamned door. That was like, Puberty 101. Or Being a Guy 101. Or Basic Fucking Common Sense 101.
A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand. "This makes me feel like a five-year-old," I said, licking it off. "If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?
In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.
My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')
In the off chance I’ll be turned on, I keep a light switch in my pocket. (Who turned off the light in my pocket? Oh yeah, my erection.)
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
I think Ken should grow some balls and tell Barbie to piss off," Matt said after Ashley waved an accusing finger in Darren's (leg-puppy) face, then stomped off to a table beside a window.
I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.
I know you did what you could to help pappa." "Kid," I brushed his hand off my shoulder. "Your father did a stupid thing and paid the price for it. Now fuck off.
Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?" Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off.
