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I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.
Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It’ll be time to start a Web site soon, where you’ll type out everything in one huge paragraph.
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game.
You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle
The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.
You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.
Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.
When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.
Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.
Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.
Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.
I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.
It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.