Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love.
Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.