The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over.
Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.
If I would have chose baseball, I think I would be missing the hell out of football a lot more. For me, I wish I could do both.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.
I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?
