I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
If I ever go into a coma, one of you has to promise to come by occasionally and tweeze my unibrow.
Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!
There's something vaguely erotic about watching a woman eat a banana while cupping two plums.
Always remember, you don't stop shitting your pants because you grow old. You grow old because you stop shitting your pants.
When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.
Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality. . . One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science. . . . As long as we have a functioning political left, we still have a chance to achieve our country, to make it the country of Whitman's and Dewey's dreams.