If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
Why should things be easy to understand?
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.
Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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