One has to make an effort at a time like that, and a clean break. It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.