I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.
Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me down on it all romantically, you know, like guys do to girls in the movies, he just dumped me onto it, so I bounced around and would have fallen off if I hadn't grabbed the edge of the mattress. "Thanks," I said, not quite able to keep all of the sarcasm out of my voice.
They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people. "
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.