Lapperts Sausalito Quotes & Sayings

People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective. — David Mamet

Sleep with him like that, so we were both just small, barely noticed punctuation in the huge book of life. — Harlem Dae

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real. — S.A. Tawks

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls. — David Wong

Occultism, then, can reasonably be regarded as metaphysical speculation - speculation about the nature of ultimate reality and of our relation to it. Typically nontheistic and monistic, it is also typically mystical. All...assume the possibility of direct contact between living human beings and ultimate reality, the noumenal, the transcendent, or the divine. Contact with ultimate reality can be achieved either through a spontaneous mystical revelation or through some ritual initiation such as those of the mysteries at Eleusis. The possibility of illumination through initiation distinguishes the occult from mysticism and connects it to secret societies such as Masonry. (13) — Leon Surette

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

To love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she is the only one you could ever love. — Henry Miller

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth. — Larry McMurtry

My teachers were often very eccentric. — Anne Waldman