I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!
Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to cover your backside.
The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. , nothing but mutations.
We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two.
1-12, how many Decembers does it take to sell thirteen to Mr. Fourteen and Mr. Months? Depends on how much love you throw in for free.
Will you be my formal yawn formation at dawn? One rocking chair nailed to the floor does not make a relationship, if you know what I mean.
Coffee has a way of falling into my cup the way love does not. I’m so tired of being a lone sip when I should be a chug.
I haven't personally met God yet, but when I do, I'll ask him if he still believes in you. I'm sure he does.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
I look for patterns that nobody else does. Like I noticed that my face looks like a tablecloth. Especially when I have food all over it.
My zip code is my salary. Too bad I live in 32256 and not 90210. Also, I lied—but only because the zip code 00000 does not exist.
I’ve just begun to scratch the surface of my talent, and boy does my talent itch. It’s like a red mosquito bite the size of Mars.
