I keep one eye on the path I didn't choose every day.
People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.
i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.
It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement. . . contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.