I have trouble distinguishing the differences between the way I've always been

and how I should be.

The politics of right and wrong make everything complicated,

to a generation who's never had a leader assassinated.

This Abandoned Building Used to Be a Business there a While Ago

and Today it is Now Empty and Condemned and it was a Business there Once upon a time.

To seem to be,

rather than to be.

To condescend

decisively.

We're here for a good time,

not a long time.

Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face

before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Dick

fisher.

All of man’s problems

come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff.

And my feeling was, 'Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?' That's what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now?

Worked very briefly for Sports Illustrated magazine,

where he was assigned to write a piece on a racehorse that had jumped a fence and attempted to run away. After staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, "The horse jumped over the fucking fence," and left.

Those who see the world as a battleground revel in what they’ve made impossible for others.

Those who see the world as a commons revel in what they have made possible with others.

Death is not the greatest loss in life.

The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

CHECK THOSE APHORISMS, BRO.

The letter

fuck.

SAMIZDAT

: a system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed; also : such literature