With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…
Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.
Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.
One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.
I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.
I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.
Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.
The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn’t it fabulous?!
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.
Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.
