Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
To be able to forget means sanity.
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
At my 30th birthday party, one of my best friends gave a toast and said I'd been waiting for that day since I was 13. Everyone laughed, but he was right! Life continues to get more fun, more surprising, more delightful.
I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.