One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.
Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this. " That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.