A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
. . . I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.