I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
The only thing some people do is get older.
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.
