And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.
That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.
If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
Moral certainty is intellectual immorality