When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is t...
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surp...
No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . . And? No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate beats...
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
I love you, Eliza, I said.She thought about it. No, she said at last, I don’t like it.Why not? I said.It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head, she said. It’s just a way of getting somebody t...
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh near...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D.
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymor...
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignor...
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how inn...
As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
A lover's a liar,To himself he lies,The truthful are loveless,Like oysters their eyes!
This is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
To be is to do - Socrates.To do is to be - Jean-Paul Satre.Do be do be do -Frank Sinatra.