The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.
People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
Hillary Clinton would rather protect bureaucrats than serve American children, and that's what she's doing and that's what she's done.
My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.