There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.
~ Marty Rubin
A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.
When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.
Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.
In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.
Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done.
Love is the body's warmth; sex, its heat.
A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing.
One should dance while one still can.
The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.
My teachers told me: Question everything; take nothing for granted. I question nothing, I take everything for granted.
I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling.
Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.
There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness.
One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart.
In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.
We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves.
Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.
A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.
Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.
The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.
All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.
Mutual helplessness is the essential relation between parent and child.
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.
Fiction: a game of pretend.
Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.
On the blank page all things are possible.
Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.
All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.
Society demands not conformity, but the appearance of conformity. That's the reason for hypocrisy.
Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.
We should not judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should leave them the hell alone.
We shouldn't judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should just leave them the hell alone.
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
A chain grows weaker with each new link.
When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.
We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.
