Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Stand up and walk out of your history.
“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Most choices are driven by immediate results.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
When you embark for strange places dont leave any of yourself safely at the shore Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
Silence is so accurate.
When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
