How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

We write the history of our time.

I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (8:32)

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.