There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.
I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.
No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.