High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.
Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.
I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.
All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.
I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.