Leonard asks me if there’s anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what’s the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that’s an easy one, my son, it’s whatever you want it to be.
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.
You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
I’m tired of making people sad and I’m tired of disappointing them and I’m tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.
No one wants to die alone, even though that’s how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there’s some other ways.
That’s how life works. You know it when you know it.They’re nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.They’re on a sixteen-line highway.Driving west.
All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
Jovinderpihainu breaks it. “You are right to ask, Shari. But there is a difference between being honest and being right. Honest men lie all the time, believing that they tell the truth. Much evil is borne on the back of honest
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don’t want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.