In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.
It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.
I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.
It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.
I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.