Life Quotes
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I think I have just evolved as a person, as a human being. I like fitness. It's an important part of my everyday life, and I enjoy and endorse a healthy lifestyle.
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I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.
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You are all just perfect little satellites Spinning round and round this broken Earthy life
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
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There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.
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'Why do they do it?' whispered Horeb. 'Their eyes, you mean?' said Rek. 'Yes. How can a man put out his own eyes?' 'Damned if I know. They say it aids their visions.' 'Sounds about as sensible as cutting off your staff in order to aid your sex life.'
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Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
