Famous Quotes Ipsum

Every child is an artist. the challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up. when you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. change is an easy panacea. it takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. lolita is famous, not i. i am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable last name. the blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it. there are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. i know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. they wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. metaphors are not to be trifled with. a single metaphor can give birth to love. the opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. if you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. it's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. i don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. i wish i believed, as j. b. priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! a "bad night" is not always a bad thing. a prudent question is one half of wisdom. question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear. all religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. all these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. i mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping. i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. maybe that's not exactly how it happened. but that's the way it should have happened. and that's the way i like to remember it. there is always a little corner which remains a secret to the world - and is only known to those two. we grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. all sanity is great madness, but the greatest madness of all is to live life the way it is, rather than as it should be. hope is a dangerous thing. drive a man insane..