It doesn't matter if being so alive kills a man; it’s better to have the quick fever every time.
Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
Inside each man, though he did not know it, nor ever considered it, was the image of the woman he someday must love. Whether she was composed of all the music he had ever heard or all the trees he had...
Ideas—written ideas—are special. They are the way we transmit our stories and our thoughts from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us h...
I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I'...
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that...
I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.
I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I’d never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I can’t say I’m greatly excited over lobster still, but I have no doubt as to its taste no...
I like to cry. After I cry hard it’s like it’s morning again and I’m starting the day over.
I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.
I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder, ' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for...
I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's bec...
I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.
I do wish to run, seize this greatest time in all the history of man to be alive, stuff my senses with it, eye it, touch it, listen to it, smell it, taste it, and hope that others will run with me, pu...
I circumnavigate each cell in youYour merest molecule is right and trueLook there for destinies indelible and fineAnd rare.Ten thousand futures share your blood each instant;Each drop of blood a clone...
I blundered into creativity as blindly as any child learning to walk and see.
His eyes took on a different color. It was a subtle shift, a flex, like a man stepping out from the shade of a tree into sunlight on a cloudy day.