“I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.” PeopleIfsWantedLife IsHoursSleepMissingDrinkDrugSevenBoringSmokePleasantMissing It Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.” FeelsLooksMayKidsEmotionMinutesDrugCancerCeasePleasantElephantsAccompanyBeing AfraidTentsHysteria Book:Travels Source: Travels
“One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.” ProblemCareersDrugDrinkingSurpriseBitterDrunkPleasantSense Of HumorExpectingPleasant Surprises Author:Gilbert Gottfried