Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.