“Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.” MenDreamRoomsDevelopmentEternalWorshipMen And WomenMalesTemplesDepressingPercentagesArrestedLockersBoyhoodLocker Room Author:Dave Barry
“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.” WorldHeartChildrenShowsHomeSpeakDarkRoomsDyingLonelinessCryWindEternalLaughterStrongerGreenRoundsGutsHotelNightmareIsolatedFierceTendernessRidiculeGarbageDarlingBleedingTransient Book:Other Voices, Other Rooms Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms
“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.” ThinkingWantGivingWellsWantedLastsLyingDesireRoomsEternalEternityUnexpectedDelightfulTorment Author:Erich Maria Remarque