Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn’t...

low risk” game.

LARRY–(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I’m afraid to live, am I?–and even more afraid to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on...

To be in love at my age would mean not to have learnt anything at all.

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still...

And that’s when I heard the whisper in my heart’s ear: “It’s not about your childhood. It’s about who you are!

And how is your head? Better?” he asked.”Very much. Sometimes it hurts.” Right now it was throbbing. “But every day I am much improved.””Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?”I put a hand to...

Don’t be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

[..]the way you get her interested in you will also be the way you’ll lose her [..]

You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes round the sun, revolving as it goes, and turning towards the sun in...

Gay people getting married is not a threat to the institution of marriage. You know what’s a threat to the institution of marriage? Infidelity is! Hate is! Unforgiveness is! Apathy is! Coldheartedness is! Fear is!...

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she’ll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed,...

The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.

Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.

But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and...

It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality,...

Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le...

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

[..] being the most attractive rarely meant being the most beautiful

Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o’clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.

Faith and belief are not measured by the size of the miracle but the integrity of our soul.

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not

Where some saw a cold-hearted calculating slut, there was actually a girl who had done a lot of growing up to realise she should only get something of equal or greater value for everything she...

If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving…. AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug...

Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of time, she will find us. The only question that remains is whether like...

Hay una realidad que demuestra la verdad de un hecho. Porque nuestra memoria y nuestros sentidos son demasiado inseguros, demasiado parciales. Incluso podemos afirmar que muchas veces es imposible discernir hasta qué punto un hecho...

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he’s worthy to be called a friend.

Carpe DiemBy Edna StewartShakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can’t I?The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me?Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare,...

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

And this,” cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, “is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.

Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never be able to see the city of London without seeing it...

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms...

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to...

He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in...

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.

If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than...

People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it’s dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh?

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he’d lost. (Though perhaps that’s not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest...

Love all of you; who you were and the person you are becoming. You are the total package!

No, sir, I’m all out of change.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he...

All truth is God’s truth.

Life is difficult.

Being a Christian is not an excuse to checkout from REALITY.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.