I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the loss...
Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his...
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no specie...
Above all, don't lose hope
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
يمكن أن يعتاد المرء على أي شيء، بما في ذلك القتل.
Science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
A tie is a noose,
You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it looks like W.H. Auden in his old age; when it's hot, it flops and dangles about in a ridiculous way; whe...
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your l...
Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has...
The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
The reward for the watching eye and listening ear is great.
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.