Quotes About Boundaries

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

He had momentarily forgotten that at a restaurant everyone is supposed to pretend there's an eight-foot wall around each table. Except the waiters, of course, who are supposed to pretend that each table is the only one they're waiting on. Like living in a small town. Notice me when I want to be noticed, but why are you prying when I want to be left alone?

Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.

From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father.

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

He understood what the priest could not. That what we seek is the worthy adversary. For we strike out to fall flailing through demons of wire and crepe and we long for something of substance to oppose us. Something to contain us or to stay our hand. Otherwise there were no boundaries to our own being and we too must extend our claims until we lose all definition. Until we must be swallowed up at last by the very void to which we wished to stand opposed.

People will tell a stranger on a bus what they wont tell their spouse.

Names are important. They set the parameters for the rules of engagement. The origin of language is in the single sound that designates the other person. Before you do something to them.

I think the dead have no nationality.

The earth fell away on every side equally in its arcature and by these limits were they circumscribed and of them were they locus.

You know what a blivet is? What. A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.

Keep the dogs off me!