The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and leng...
The rougher the world gets around me, the sweeter I seem to myself.
The wind had its arms around them. The sea dandled them on its knee.
There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.
There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering, is simply this: Everything is connected. . Many, if not most, of the l...
To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.
Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.
Unless it was about to cause you bodily harm, rot your rhubarb on the stalk, or carry off your children, weather ought either to be celebrated or ignored.
We live now in an information technology. Flowers have always lived in an information technology. Flowers gather information all day. At night, they process it. This is called photosynthesis. As our n...
What I love most about Jerusalem is that it’s not about money. Pardon? New York here is a city about money. L.A.’s about money. Las Vegas is about money. Dallas the same. Tokyo and London, Milan, Zuri...
What bothers me today is the lack of, well, I guess you'd call it authentic experience. So much is a sham. So much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized. You know, less than half a...
What is it, Maestra had asked quite rhetorically, that separates human beings from the so-called lower animals? Well, as I see it, it’s exactly one half-dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, E...
When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake...
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
Who knows how to make love stay?1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.2. Tell love you...
Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.
Although surely she realized that space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.
Nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
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