To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.
Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.
I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. . . . The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.
Oh. . . my. . . god,"Drew whimpered. "Who. . . " Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. " May I have this dance?" "I suppose," I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,"Oh my god! Oh my god!" No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.