It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.
Never pass by a chance to shut up.
There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. When they were ten he asked her to marry him. When they were eleven he kissed her for the first time. . . For her sixteenth birthday he gave her an English dictionary and together they learned the words.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?