Chaos is a friend of mine.
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
If you need a miracle, be a miracle.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.
When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.
I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.
I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.
