I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
Writing has. . . been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
To live is to war with trolls.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness. " Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.
This is nothin for the radio. . . but they'll still play it though