Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox. " She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.
We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.
I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L. A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".