Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.