Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us. . . then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.
Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart
As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion. . . . if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.
People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.
I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.