Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven. . . have ever been inside. So the NFL is certainly about the Colosseum of Rome. It can't be a studio game.
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.
I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.
Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.
The thought must have its own center of gravity; it cannot just be either here or there. We must find this center of gravity. It is the same for the body; if it is not centered, no movement will be possible. It is the same for the feeling. These Movements are designed to enable us to pass from one center of gravity to another; it is the shift that creates the state. The gesture, the movement, is what is important, not the attitudes.