Life

You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?'Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it’s easy to preach. I guess that’s why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up’s and down’s and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail.

Being seventy is not a sin.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, 'You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence. Every sort of thing happened, at home and outside, every day, but I don't recall having ever thought that the life we had there was particularly bad. Life was like that, that's all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.

The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow.

You are all a lost generation,' Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

The years thunder by.The dreams of youth grow dimwhere they liecaked in dust on the shelves of patience.Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.Where, then lies the answer?In choice.Which shall it be:Bankruptcy of Purseor Bankruptcy of Life?

She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.

As soon as she was ready for work, she called out to Eric's closed door. 'Anything in particular you want for breakfast?' 'Yeah,' he said, heading for the door. 'But I don't think it's on the menu.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. It shows us how empowering change can be.

The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?

I have no way to describe this, and I am positive that this is all just a horrible dream I have yet to wake up from. The vice principle is insane. My own uncle is insane. Those stupid kids are insane. Mother Nature is insane...

Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.