Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. . . . I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. . . . Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you. ' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.
I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.
Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.