Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.
I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.
Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.
People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3. 3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.