The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.