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Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.
There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?
If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.
[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.
I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.
Do everything you can to preserve and protect love so that it endures forever.
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.
Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.