Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.