"I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve."

“I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com

“What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.”

“Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.”

“Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.”

“If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.”

Source : Bonnie Fuller (2006). “The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (even If You're Afraid You Don't Have what it Takes)”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

“If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.”

“You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.”

“For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.”

Source : Edward Everett Hale (1903). “"We, the People": A Series of Papers on Topics of Toda”