I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles. . . to please anyone or to sell more easily.
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.
You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
I think if there hadn't been the one passage of the book that mostly abandons the humor, and focuses very intently on one person's struggle with cancer, it wouldn't have been a critical success. So that was a very deliberate decision, to say "Well, if you think it's all fun and games, it's not. " So that was my approach: We're going to have as much fun as I can possibly provide, but the serious things that might normally pass by you are not going to be lost.
To conform is to lose your soul
I've been left for someone. . . all those things. . . It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.
Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.