Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.
Prayer is man's greatest power!
My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.
One of women's greatest values is compassion.
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
Think of music as being a great snarl of a city [...]. In the years I spent living there, I came to know its streets. Not just the main streets. Not just the alleys. I knew shortcuts and rooftops and parts of the sewers. Because of this, I could move...
Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
A blanket could be used for anti-population-control purposes. Get naked and get under the blanket and I’ll show you how it works.
A brick could be placed on your child’s cafeteria lunch tray, in place of the less appetizing and more unnatural food they normally serve.
A brick could be used to make yourself taller. It’s like self-esteem, only easier to use in the construction of a house.
A blanket could be used for selfish reasons. I would list those reasons, but they’re mine—all of them. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.
A blanket could be used to feed the homeless. I mean warm the coldless. I mean coldsome. I wouldn’t know, because I’m homefull.
A brick could be used to sway the voters. But if you really want to sway them, try using a catchy song.
A brick could be used to represent a memory. That way when you live in a brick house, you could be living in the past.
