Guilt says: I made a mistake. Shame says: I AM a mistake.
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence
Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.
But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.