The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.
Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.
