#life

"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."

"Sometimes God is Drunk [10w] Satan's sudden appearance means God is on a drinking binge."

"Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."

"Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try."

"Past is Past [10w] Lovers should clearly avoid obsessing about each other's romantic past."

"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."

"An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality."

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

"I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive."

"Say This to Her/Him and Just See What Happens... *I want to kiss you in places I've never kissed you before."

"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"

"Mild Suffering vs. Great Suffering Mild suffering serves the purpose of inner-change.Great suffering serves the purpose of evil,or just being at the wrong place at the wrong time."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind."

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

"To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike."

"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"

"I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice."