I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Never economize on luxuries.
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.
I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.
PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out,. . . They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight. '
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!