We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
The day of the android has dawned.
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.
There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi. " It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.