| 1 |
This is an insidious malady chiefly common in that mythical organ that pumps life through the veins of the ego: care, coronary care, complicated by galloping fear. We learn young to be leery of contact: Never open up, we learn... you want somebody running their dirty old fingers over your soul's privates? |
| 2 |
Never accept candy from strangers. Or from friends. Sneak off a sack of gumdrops when nobody's looking if you can, but don't accept... you want somebody taking advantage? |
| 3 |
So you sing with the echo. But you must be careful in choosing your key or your tempo; because an echo is an inflexible and pitiless taskmaster: you sing the echo's way because it is damned sure not going to sing yours. |
| 4 |
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hang-up. |
| 5 |
The binds - I mean a bind; the binds sounds like something caused by nitrogen bubbles in your ego - a bind is when you are put in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation. |
| 6 |
No, there ain't any true strength; there's just different degrees of weakness. |
| 7 |
It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too. |
| 8 |
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. |
| 9 |
'It's only a rattle,' Alice said, after a careful examination of the little white thing. 'Not a rattle-snake, you know.' |
| 10 |
If you can see whether I'm singing or not, you've sharper eyes than most. |
| 11 |
I only wish I had such eyes to be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light. |
| 12 |
Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out. |
| 13 |
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. |
| 14 |
Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. |
| 15 |
The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful. |
| 16 |
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running to go fight in another fight, away from the first fight. |
| 17 |
Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. |
| 18 |
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. |
| 19 |
Wearing an open-necked shirt and blue jeans rolled up at the cuffs he looked as lonely and inappropriate as a seagull in a wheat field. |
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