I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.
And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all.
Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.
If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.
We both know that I will not come. We both know that he won't be in Canada. There will be another earthquake, another flood, another war, another reason to not go where we think we are going. It is a strange life, this. Chasing human misery around th...
Mistakes are lessons by another name.
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special? It doesn't.
Society will always do better where citizens have a belief in justice, honour and private morality. Where individuals are reduced to the satisfaction of personal appetites society will decline. The need to preserve society is at the very heart of con...
Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how to let it go.
The goddamn movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding -Holden Caulfield
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand
This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.
Growing religious fundamentalism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. The Indian government is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, but when the consequences of that become hard to manage, the ...
For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.
When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
I had come to learn pretty quickly that life has its highs and lows just like the ocean does and sometimes you just have to see how far they'll carry you.
He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be old, but Sebastien was starting to wonder if people began to feel that way quite a bit earlier, and spent their lives waiting for their bodies to...
It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
