Good news always comes from far away.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My bo...
The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps o...
Learn to let go or everything you have ever done will be in vain. You will let go of everything right now." He told me, staring into my blue eyes with his big golden orbs. "You are going to let go of everything in this world and let yourself become n...
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be....
I’m going to lose weight for you,” she [Valencia Merble] said. “What?” “I’m going to go on a diet. I’m going to become beautiful for you.” “I like you just the way you are.” “Do you really?” “Really,” said Billy Pilgrim. H...
I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That...
We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air ...
Kent Mansley: Hey, where you going? Where you going, champ, chief, slugger? Where you going? Where you going? Hogarth Hughes: I'm going out! Annie Hughes: Well, why don't you take Mr. Mansley with you? You can show him the sights. Hogarth Hughes: Aww...
Charley Ford: Hey, Dick, you ever diddled a squaw? Dick Liddil: Shh... Charley Ford: Come on, you can tell me. I've always wanted to lay down with a redskin. Dick Liddil: Well, Charley, there's a feeling that comes over you gettin' inside a woman who...
As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.
There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.
All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.
Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?
And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.
Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.
If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
