"God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!"

-- Joseph Campbell

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“When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.”

Source : Treetops pt. 2, ch. 11 (1991)
“If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.”
“I would always drink purple drink - syrup. I would just be in a room, screwing and chopping up music. It was like an alter ego - I would turn into another person when I was on a substance. My music would get darker and weirder, and it inspired a lot of people. But I've changed my life and stopped smoking. I like to turn up and have fun when I get the chance, but I don't overdo it now.”
“I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.”
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
“Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.”
“Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)”
“O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?”

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