That would be the death of anyone – to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn’t know that. If it is offered, refuse!
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don’t you?
I’m an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.
We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.
The world isn’t the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.
– Some people forget, do you know – they forget what it is like to be young, to feel things ruthlessly, terribly. If you forget that much of life, well, I don’t know.
If he acts, if he doesn’t, it’s meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.
No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.
If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won’t argue with you. But, then you have to say where the pigeons come from.
I hate when I break my own rules. What’s the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?
I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn’t have very much faith in me.