Life

Discovery is dangerous . . . But so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving.

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... Nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!

The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

None of the dead come back. But some stay.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots.

What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.

Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Age and illness made one a dualist.

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

Drinking people are loud people. This is loston children, who make monkey bars of noise,climbing through and over its steel pipesuntil they king the metal smell of mountain.

Life is school.Be a student for life.

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.