Life

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...My best shot.

I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

All these last offices and ceremonies that concern the dead, the careful funeral arrangements, and the equipment of the tomb, and the pomp of obsequies, are rather the solace of the living than the comfort of the dead.

We have all another or different Life and Free time.Jan Jansen.

You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.

I'm sorry,' Billy says, 'but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

For a large majority of youth raised in church, the church has become irrelevant to their goals and pursuits in life.

I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true after watching the corpse of myself walk around.

What happened to you?' she asked.'Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.

We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY!

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?