25 quotes found
“A broken thing can't fix itself.”
“Evil never dies. It just changes faces.”
“Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.”
“You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.”
“Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.”
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. ”
“Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.”
“This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose”
“All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nat...”
“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.”
“I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then ...”
“Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can h...”
“That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect...”
“I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.”
“Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.”
“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so un...”
“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an in...”
“Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.”
“When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.”
“She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.”
