According to Aristophanes in Plato’s The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren’t simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female...

If people can’t stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the...

Then we are living in a place abandoned by God,” I said, disheartened.”Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?” William asked me, looking down from his great height.

It’s just like John Mayer says in “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”. When it’s this bad, you have to get out or you’ll get burned.

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Truth, like diamond, has many facets.

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

BAIT GOATThere is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will...

I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one’s consciousness to the highest and out of it’s safety net, making one breathe aspiration.

As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the...

At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite...

There is a saying that “paper is more patient than man”;it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up...

Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and...

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages;...

Money cannot buy time.

It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt.

… one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared...

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It’s crippling.

If you love someone, you don’t act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they’re the most important person in the world to you.

top” hemust fly, not climb.

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down…we just need a push.

News is something worth knowing that you didn’t know already. (by an “earnest young woman” in his journalism class)

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain...

It’s just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

A worst thing is thinking about health who show interest in non-vegetarian

Futures can and do change, something as simple as you’re supposed to turn right down a street one day… In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to...

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’, the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow...

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

…People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

What work do I have to do then?” said Will, but went on at once, “No, on second thought, don’t tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting,...

I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual...

How do you explain to your friend’s mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?

Talk To God Ch 13 p. 90: No it doesn’t have to be a prayer. It could be someone just concentrating extremely hard, wishing or hoping that will create “the vibe” if they are so...

People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a “failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds...

He lingered at the door, and said, ‘The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?’…She couldn’t say forgiveness, not to Liir....

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down...