Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense of what is unknown with a fantasy that is m...
And I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.
Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!
It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
In the ass is how you create loyalty.
أمن أجل ذلك صُنع الخلود، لكي يخوض المرء في تفاصيل عمره؟
You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon...
It's no picnic up there in the egosphere.
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's ho...
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated,
It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your...
Rimane il fatto che, in ogni modo, capire bene la gente non è vivere. Vivere è capirla male, capirla male e male e poi male e, dopo un attento riesame, ancora male. Ecco come sappiamo di essere vivi:...
Religion was a lie that he had recognized early in life, and he found all religions offensive, considered their superstitious folderol meaningless, childish, couldn't stand the complete unadultness —...
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...
الجسد يحوي الكثيرمن قصص الحياة تماما مثل المخ .ــــــ إدنا أوه براين