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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
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We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
