My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.
I'll cab it home. " "Naw. I'll hang until you're through. Then I'll drag you back to your apartment. Watch you throw up for an hour. Push you into bed. Before I leave I'll get the coffee machine set up. Aspirin will be right next to the sugar bowl. " "I don't have a sugar bowl. " "So it'll be next to the bag. " Butch smiled. "You'd have made a great wife, Jose. " "That's what mine tells me.
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.