When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
There is always time for failure
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.
We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor. ' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200. '