"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."
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"I’m more of a journalist than anyone in the mainstream media, and I write fiction. More than fiction, I write absurd nonsense surrealism, and my work has more truth."
"Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do."
"Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions."
"It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts."
"In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever."
"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
"One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be."
"And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")"
"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked"
"Woman is the light of God."
"I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it."
"A follow-up letter is best when not written on the back of a suicide note. Remember this next time you’re at a networking event, unless your new connection is a mortician."
"I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special."
"A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery."
"Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for."
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
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