And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.
Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.
We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.
Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.