We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring. . . 'How to Build a Boat. '
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. . . I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation. . What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
People don't like politicians.
I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.
Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.