I am about as detailed as a shadow.
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true. . . we call it history.
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.