Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
If you haven’t been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.
The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked
We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast.
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
He didn’t remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.
I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.
Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.
Someday I’ll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn’t one I’ve heard about.
She frowned at him. ‘You are in love with solitude.”Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
Each evening she held his head in her hands and ran her aching fingers thru the thick ruff of fur around his neck. He burrowed against her, sighing devotion.
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that’s how I live now.
I’ve been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
I’d like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same – the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.