Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
I mean, who you choose to walk with through life will be the most important decision that you will ever, ever make. You will have your children and you will love them because they are yours and because they will be wonderful. Just like you. But who you marry is a choice. The man you choose should make you happy, encourage you in following your dreams, big ones and little ones.
The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.
Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?
The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.
I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
A complete need should not exist. . . love, life in common with loved ones?
Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.
The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
You know, you still owe me pancakes. I think I could go for…apple cinnamon ones now. “ “Apple cinnamon? You sure are demanding. ” “It’s all right. I think you’re man enough for it. ” “Thetis, if I actually believed you had either apples or cinnamon in your kitchen, I’d make them for you right now. ” I didn’t answer. I was pretty sure I had some year-old Apple Jacks, but that was about it.
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.