Quotes
He was a very dispirited Poet. He had never expected the world to act in a courteous, seemly, or even sensible manner, and the world had seldom done so; often he had taken heart in the consistency of its rudeness and stupidity. But never before had the world shot the Poet in the abdomen with a musket. This he found not heartening at all.
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
"In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline."
There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.
"What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, Eroticism — as opposed to the mindless, instinctive mating of glow-worms or raccoons — Spirituality, Rebelliousness, and Aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty for its own sake. Now, since those are the features that define a human being, it follows that the extent to which someone is lacking in those qualities is the extent to which he or she is less than human. Capisce?"
"Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace — and maybe even glory."
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.
