Every love's the love before in a duller dress.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
America is a lonely crock of shit...
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read" - sal paradise.
Business of man is to be happy.
If I had it to do over again, I'd probably do everything I did. But that's not necessarily the right thing to do.
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
A smart girl leaves before she is left.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Fashion changes, but style endures.