“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”
― Coriolanus
― Coriolanus
“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.”
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
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