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Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.
Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.
Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.
Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.
A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.