Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

Only the small things in life are important

That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?   'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

Lies and victimhood make evil possible

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

Holland seems like a quaint toy.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world