I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
When someone tells you somebody’s been murdered, laughing is probably not the best response. You know, for future reference. But laughing is exactly what I did.
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. "Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?". "Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not."
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
When you say gorgeous,†Jen started, “are we talking Brad Pitt boyish good looks, or Johnny Depp make ya want to slap somebody?†“No, we’re talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize†Jacque answered.
Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.