life

"Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning."

"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"I'm hanging on to her memory like Spanish moss on an ancient Florida oak, and unlike the sunset, my love won't fade."

"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."

"You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED."

"I kissed a mystery, and it tasted like a woman. Lips are always full of delicious secrets."

"We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything."

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."

"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

"Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"

"I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself."