Clinging to ones outward appearance interferes with living.
Kb Abe, The Box Man.
“You can only do what you can no matter how you try.”
“If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if...”
“These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative of anti-instalme...”
“I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.”
“Its a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.”
“The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The area at two...”
“Its one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.”
“What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!”
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to eac...”
“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.”
“Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.”