When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.
Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.
Sense isn’t democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person.
CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period…literally.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.
Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.
Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding!
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction
We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.
George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
It may hurt today, but it will get better. Time passes, and people forget. It won't be long before you'll be able to look back on everything that happened today and laugh.
We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.
