“I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you.”
“I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“With the question all wrong, how could they ever find the right answer?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“Cannes was to blame, he told himself defensively. It was a city made for the indulgence of the senses, all ease and sunshine and provocative flesh.
“What had he seen, what had he learned? He had seen all kinds of movies, good and bad, mostly bad. He had been plunged into a carnival, a delirium of film. In the halls, on the terraces, on the beach, at the parties, the art or industry or whatever it deserved to be called in these few days was exposed at its essence. The whole thing was there—the artists and pseudo-artists, the businessmen, the con men, the buyers and sellers, the peddlers, the whores, the pornographers, critics, hangers-on, the year’s heroes, the year’s failures. And then the distillation of what it was all about, a film of Bergman's and one of Bunuel's, pure and devastating.”
Source: Evening in Byzantium
“As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?”
Source: No Place to Hide: How I Put the Black in the Union Jack
“Boxing is the most extreme metaphor of personal liability – you enter the ring alone and compete the same way.”
Source: Life in the Trenches
“Size is not the proper way to measure a pair of boxing gloves. A boxing glove is measured by weight.”
Source: Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS
“Trotzdem war etwas besonderes an ihr, nur konnte Lenchen nicht gleich darauf kommen, was es war. Doch dann bemerkte sie es: Die Fee hatte sechs Finger an jeder Hand.
"Mach dir nichts draus", sagte Franziska Fragezeichen, die Lenchens Blick bemerkt hatte, "bei uns Feen ist immer irgendetwas ein bisschen anders als bei gewöhnlichen Menschen. Sonst wären wir ja keine Feen. Das verstehst du doch?”
Source: Die Zauberschule: und andere Geschichten
“Verdammt nochmal! Wo bleibt meine fette, gute Fee, die alles zum Besseren wendet und aus meinem Leben mein wohlverdientes Märchen macht?”
Source: Scheiß auf Ritter! - Weihnachtsedition
“God is where there are no ‘fees’ being charged, where there is no botheration and where there is no scolding; that is where God is.”