life

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

"Pain or love or danger makes you real again...."

"I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them"

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

"Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people."

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man."

"Progress just means bad things happen faster."

"Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show."

"It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."

"I need more frugality. I wonder where I can buy some."

"The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage."

"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."

"I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?"

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

"Dinner was a riot, but the food was bland, so I doused it with pepper spray. The chef wanted to protest, but he didn’t, because I had the pepper spray."