Quotes About Perspective

he still couldn't write or what he wrote didn't work because that tremendous brave optimism that buoyed everybody up so well during the depression just turned to sugar water during good times.

Sometimes a phone made me think of an elephant turd. You know, all the shit you hear. A phone is a phone but what comes through it is another matter.

but the man with the whip was a part of the whole no matter how seemingly useless and stupid and once great thoughts often with time become useless and stupid. but Schopenhauer's rage was so beautiful so well placed that I laughed out loud then put him down next to Nietzsche who was also all too human.

The Bible says, 'Love thy neighbor.' That could mean to leave him alone.

I am asked to hide my viewpoint from them for fear of their fear.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

My laughter was all there inside of me waiting to roar out: HAHAHAHAHA, o my god o my HAHAHAHA. It felt so good when it happened. Dee Dee knew something about life. Dee Dee knew that what happened to one happened to most of us. Our lives were not so different—even though we liked to think so.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it's happening to them.

She pointed at me. I felt important. I had lost so many women to so many other guys that it felt good for the thing to be working the other way around.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

So that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

if you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence

I need more balance, a more distanced perspective. I should accept what is. nightmares are a part of existence.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

It felt good not to be part of that sort of thing. I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

he gabbles about the Arts until I hate the Arts

Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

so I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do.

to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

The poem has some value, believe me. It keeps you from going totally mad.

I'm more interested in humanity in general than pussy in the exact.

When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great. I

Maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

You learn about death by dying not by looking at it.