What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire Quotes

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

“I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.”

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

“and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.”

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.”

“I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.”

“and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself.”

″..we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies..”

“attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can’t sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles;..”

“but when I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering and those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up and waiting I get quiet inside I get what other men get from other things I just feel better and it’s good to feel better whenever you can not needing a reason.”

“What’s genius? I don’t know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can’t help doing.”

“you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.”

“I’ve memorized all the fish in the sea I’ve memorized each opportunity strangled and I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love and I’ve memorized that too.”

“Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”

“all the poets wanted to get disability insurance it was better than immortality.”

“yes, the real miracles are the thousands of tiny people who know exactly what they are doing. I used to look for inspiration in higher places but the higher you go like to Plato or God the less space there is in which to stand.”

“if only we were crazy enough to be willing to ignore our mechanical and static perceptions we’d know that a half-filled coffee cup holds more secrets than, say, the Grand Canyon.”