Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people…well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.