#life

"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it."

"I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk."

"Dull Poetry Dulls the Mind [10w] Poetry penetrates dullness when whetted on the stone of imagination."

"When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass."

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."

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

"I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares."

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place."

"Rice-a-Roni: The San Francisco treat... ...the other treat, of course, being anal penetration."

"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."

"I find Bukowski to be so edgy, gritty, and daring that he oozes romance, and if couples read him in bed they would appreciate what they have."

"Be an example and open a new way for life."

"Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"Learn from Children [10w] Children picture God as a smiley sun emanating love light."

"I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything."

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

"Gradually Then Instantly [10w] We fall in love the way we lose our minds."

"It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist."