Thoughts On The Edge

Age does not protect you from love. But the law, to some extent, protects you from age.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.