In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?
There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.
My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.