There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.
Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer. " "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.
It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and from different angles. I construct a collection and it takes concrete form. That's probably what appears conceptual to people because it never starts out with any specific historical or geographical reference. My point of departure is always abstract and multileveled.
My dad's like, If your mom and I are having sex and we videotape it and she falls out of bed funny, can I win ten-thousand dollars?