I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.
Never tell. Not if you love your wife. . . In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die. ' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.
What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to GROW into your goals.