No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.
Food is not your best friend or enemy.
Never assume someone is smarter than you.
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.
All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.
She heard Adrian say to Christian, ʺYou know, your shirtʹs kind of grungy-looking. Seems like you could put in a little more effort since youʹre dating a princess. ʺ
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device. . . or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst.