For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain
And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.
I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty. . . and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.