"I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time."

-- John Cale

“Peace Within. Peace Without. Mi Zai”
“Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.”
“Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.”
“Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.”
“Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the Internet has changed our very way of being in this world, compelling us to be perpetually "on" - from our cars to our computers, our tablets to our smartphones, our desks to our living rooms or dining tables, our churches to our libraries to our schools.”
“My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.”
“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.”
“Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.”

Source : William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”

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