philosophy

"A prison becomes a home when you have the key."

"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear."

"The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing."

"For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth."

"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

"Take it easy, but take it."

"I have no money, but my wallet is overflowing with love."

"Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men."

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

"Love vs. Honeymoon [10w] Love is what truly begins when the honeymoon is over."

"...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes."

"He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave."

"Love vs. Control [10w] A lover you can control is not worthy of having."

"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

"Violence begins with the fork."

"If I Were God [10w] If I were God I'd sell my shit on Ebay."

"Err 2 [10w] To err is human, to make it a habit, assinine."