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Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.
“You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can’t love anyone.
One thing you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have—people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness
and light all of our lives.
See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you
want to? Then you’re an artist.”
“That’s what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”
a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn’t matter anymore, because now it’s about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
It’s amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us . . . Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
