Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.

A poem without metaphor is a gelding

I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Love is a contradiction.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.