I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.
I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been. . . we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.
Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'
Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.