The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

It’s important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it’s not through a small screen

If you’re given a dirty look, wash it and give it back.

When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date

The best way to move forward is to stop

If you want to know what’s going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.

In the big scheme of things, all’s we really need, is a little love

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

Time is a tease

Listen.” Jennifer reverted, “I didn’t mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and …” She struggled for the right words. “Sweetie, like love, people don’t live inside...

You cannot create the life you need unless you pass through the death of the life you no longer want … it’s just not possible. Deconstruction always comes before reconstruction.

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises...

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it...

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all...

We can’t escape history, anymore than we can recapture it.” Master Kai

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.

Alan Grant: “There are… far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It’s a horrible thought.” The Midget (his nurse): “You sound constipated.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them...

It can be deeply frustrating when people disagree with you, especially when it is so many of them. It might make you feel slighted, or even isolated. But instead of declaring everyone to be stupid,...

Behind every wolf in sheep’s clothing is a trail of dead sheep.

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his...

I… a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

They can send death at once, but life is slower…

So oft it chances in particular menThat for some vicious mole of nature inthem—As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty,Since nature cannot choose his origin),By the o’ergrowth of some complexion,Oft breaking down the...

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

The surgeon tells me that you’re a sorcerer,” Pym said. “Is that so?”Jaki looked to the captain with the glare of the masts in his eyes. “Yes.”Pym weighed this disclosure. “You speak with the dead?””Yes.”The...

Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law...

And God said: Let there be light, and there was light.” Lena opened her eyes, feeling as if someone had been reading this verse out loud in the room. She looked around. Another morning dawned,...

It meant leading my meta-life. Meta-life is the opposite of living in the moment. It’s the syndrome of simultaneously having an experience and being an observer commenting on and questioning the experience. By observing something,...

Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them.” – Fenella

Crows pooping in your neighbor’s roof is not good news; one day they will be pooping in your roof too

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

Walk in the light while you have the light.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can’t shout

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body...

Try and avoid people who use the word “cant” regularly associate rather with those who say “can” and do

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we’re also responsible for keeping it going...

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

For all that is ours, we must make conscious attempts to look after and for all that is not ours, we must make conscious attempts to stay aloof.

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.