Jason and Ferrin turned. Aram, face shiny with sweat, pulled a small pair of pants over his skinny legs. His shrunken hands trembled.Ferrin struggled not to smile. He was unsuccessful.Ferrin's involun...

If you truly want to impress someone, remember points they shared in previous conversations and mention it when you reconnect.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.

Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest o...

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.

During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine.

Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.

Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the dayYour footsteps guide my steps all alongBeneath my skin your veins belong.

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cher...

I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Zelf heb ik Frisch één keer ontmoet, in Edinburgh. Wat weet ik daar nog van? Niet veel.Met Mulisch en Reve was ik de Nederlandse delegatie bij een groot schrijverscongres.1962. Vier jaar voor hij aan...

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whol...

I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for it. Amer...

HAMM:Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday!CLOV (violently):That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day. I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any...