Ciccarone West Quotes & Sayings

When the meaning of life has been suppressed, there still remains life. "I live," says Ivan, "in spite of logic." And again: "If I no longer had any faith in life, if I doubted a woman I loved, or the universal order of things, if I were persuaded, on the contrary, that everything was only an infernal and accursed chaos - even then I would want to live." Ivan will live,
then, and will love as well "without knowing why." But to live is also to act. To act in the name of what?
If there is no immortality, then there is neither reward nor punishment. "I believe that there is no virtue
without immortality." And also: "I only know that suffering exists, that no one is guilty, that everything is
connected, that everything passes away and equals out." But if there is no virtue, there is no law:
"Everything is permitted. — Albert Camus

I told you when you hired him that - " "When I hired him?" "Don't interrupt. - that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly. — Robert A. Heinlein

Memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost and, even then, how much, under the weight of pure determination, can be forgotten and left aside only to return in the night as piercing pain. — Colm Toibin

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible. — Daphne Guinness

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge. — Lois Greiman