I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer. " "Only if you slide too. " "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom. " He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around.
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.