Quotes About Balance

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

people need me. I fill them. if they can't see me for awhile the get desperate, they get sick. but if I see them too often I get sick. it's hard to feed without getting fed.

It's hard to drink when you dance. And it's hard to dance when you drink.

A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then.

love needs too much help, he said. hate takes care of itself.

one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.

It's the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

but we joke and laugh otherwise we would start screaming.

permanent living peace is permanent living death.

I get 75 letters a month. If i answered them that's all I would ever do.

A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.

Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.

to whom it may concern: please phone me for appointments when you want to see me. I will not answer unsolicited knocks upon the door. I need time to do my work. I will not allow you to murder my work. please understand that what keeps me alive will make me a better person toward and for you when we finally meet under easy and unstrained conditions.

why it's so hard to go crazy— if you're not already crazy

as a very young man I divided an equal amount of time between the bars and the libraries; how I managed to provide for my other ordinary needs is the puzzle; well, I simply didn't bother too much with that— if I had a book or a drink then I didn't think too much of other things—fools create their own paradise.

I always had this certain contentment- I wouldn't call it happiness- it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was occurring

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all.

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

Kimsenin ?st?rab? olmas? gerekenden fazla de?ildir.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

cuando estaba en buena forma espiritual, después de comer lavaba el plato inmediatamente.

A whore is a woman who takes more than she gives. A man who takes more than he gives is called a businessman.

the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much.