Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and...
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else ...
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless sea
The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often c...
there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
There are as many Democrats that are guilty as Republicans and their spending habits. And the fact is, is that Washington is just broken.
I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
