Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader. . . I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice. . . mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
I want to be alone with my thought.
We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don't know. My whole body craves to be held. I am desperate to love and be loved. I want my mind to float into another's. I want to be set free from despair by the love I feel for another. I want to be physically part of someone else. I want to be joined. I want to be open and free to explore every part of them, as though I were exploring myself.
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.
For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.
I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something. . . I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.
After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment. "
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
I honestly thought we wouldn't hold the U. S. Senate. I thought we'd come up short and I didn't think President Donald Trump had a chance of winning. Given my expectations, doubly exciting because I thought we'd come up short on the Senate. We had a lot of exposure. That was really something. But it never occurred to me that he might be able to win as well.
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
