“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law”
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“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
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“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
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