John Quotes
You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
