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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
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A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
