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To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.
You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self
...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.
Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.
Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me
The quickest way to recognize a cult is its treatment of Jesus.
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.
Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.
Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.
The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.
If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.
Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.
The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love.
Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.
Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.