History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
. . . looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat. ' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e. g. , lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
Fashion needs to be worn.