It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.
Tim TharpThat's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.
Tim TharpGoodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now
Tim TharpBesides, Iโm not looking to get saved. Iโm only going with her because itโs what you do when youโre in a relationship. You know? You slide into the third pew from the front and sit there thinking about how desperate all these people are to feel like something loves them. Theyโll believe all kinds of hocus-pocus. But your girlfriend likes it, and you like her, so you do it. Itโs called compromise. The only way youโre going to get something to last in this world is to work at it.
Tim TharpIt's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.
Tim Tharp