Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!
Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.
I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.