I'm really tired of virtue.
But we are more than genteel or civilized we are an idea in the process of being realized.
Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry but you're so beautiful flowers turn their heads to smell you
You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice. When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why
I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.