#life

"If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it."

"A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"In the midst of life, we are in death."

"Over [10w] It's never ever over because the fat lady can't sing."

"Time Traveler's Ennui The future ain't what it use to be."

"I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared."

"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"

"I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one."

"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity."

"Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?"

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

"God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next."

"True life lies in laughter, love and work."

"Fat Bungee Jumpers When I watch a fat woman bungee jumpI swear I can feel the earth leaving its orbit."

"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."

"Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?"

"You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable."

"Layer by layer art strips life bare."

"I don't want to take revenge or teach you a lesson, but you will bear the consequences of your actions by losing me."