One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.
A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.
Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
because talent alone doesn't make an artist
i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.
The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.
My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it up endlessly and relentlessly. I think it's a search for clarity, but she uses different words.
It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this. " Let there be space between you and the book.
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers. . . it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated. . . that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.