Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.
Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another. [T]he most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.