Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
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Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.
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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
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Persistence plus no dignity equals success.
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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.
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If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?
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After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
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Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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