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What would beauty be if the whole world were blind? -- Marty Rubin

To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory. -- Marty Rubin

The firmer the plan, the more one can expect the unexpected. -- Marty Rubin

How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives! -- Marty Rubin

The perfect plan is to have none. -- Marty Rubin

Never do anything for money you wouldn't do for free. -- Marty Rubin

When people have given up on happiness they call themselves realists. -- Marty Rubin

The Garden of Eden still exists; there are just no people in it. -- Marty Rubin

Inertia is often mistaken for patience. -- Marty Rubin

Culture is a communicable disease. -- Marty Rubin

A happy childhood is hard to overcome. -- Marty Rubin

It's a sick philosophy that begrudges people their illusions. -- Marty Rubin

All lovers meet and love by chance. -- Marty Rubin

The fire alarm is not the fire. -- Marty Rubin

The forms art takes keep changing, but the themes remain the same. -- Marty Rubin

You can't summarize a story or a life. The story, the life, is the summary. -- Marty Rubin

We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. -- Marty Rubin

It's not easy to change things. Things fight back. -- Marty Rubin

How many deaths before the real one? -- Marty Rubin

Education is either self-discovery or propaganda. -- Marty Rubin

We humans are part of nature and whatever creative talents we might have come from nature and are part of nature's gift to us. -- Marty Rubin

Be a poet in action as well as in words. -- Marty Rubin

In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real. -- Marty Rubin

Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore. -- Marty Rubin

Nobody knows what they're doing here, so why do so many pretend they do? -- Marty Rubin

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along. -- Marty Rubin

Time can't be found, only lost. -- Marty Rubin

It's only the poor who can't get away with murder. -- Marty Rubin

Morality is religion's license to kill. -- Marty Rubin

The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake. -- Marty Rubin

Wisdom is born of the foolish things one does for love. -- Marty Rubin

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there. -- Marty Rubin

The past lives through us. We are its legacy. -- Marty Rubin

A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning. -- Marty Rubin

Custom is sanctified absurdity. -- Marty Rubin

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow. -- Marty Rubin

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple. -- Marty Rubin

If you want absolutes, you have to invent them yourself. -- Marty Rubin

Art should be a great hallelujah to life. -- Marty Rubin

What fades, vanishes, decays, dies-that's what one must love. -- Marty Rubin

The rain dripping off the roof is bigger than literature, bigger than art. No word or image can contain it. -- Marty Rubin

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets. -- Marty Rubin

I've seen a man die and a bird die and there was no difference. -- Marty Rubin

Relax. If you push yourself you won't get far. -- Marty Rubin

Do what you love even if it gets you nowhere. -- Marty Rubin

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all. -- Marty Rubin

Speak to the dead. Ask them what they miss most about living. -- Marty Rubin

It is staggering the amount of suffering caused by bad ideas. -- Marty Rubin

That love is, is all we know of love. -- Marty Rubin

Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything. -- Marty Rubin

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. -- Marty Rubin

Nothing saddens me more than seeing how quickly the dog grows used to its leash. -- Marty Rubin

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest? -- Marty Rubin

We all have our weak moments when we believe the worst things we think about ourselves. -- Marty Rubin

Better to stand aloof and love quietly than join the cavalcade of hate. -- Marty Rubin

The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high -- Marty Rubin

If you're afraid to be alone, you are alone. -- Marty Rubin

If you're scared to be alone, you are alone. -- Marty Rubin

Happiness is contagious. The more I think about it the happier I am. -- Marty Rubin

Movement is joy. -- Marty Rubin

You don't analyze a kiss. You kiss. -- Marty Rubin

We know death; it's life we don't know. -- Marty Rubin

We think in one language and feel in another. -- Marty Rubin

Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one. -- Marty Rubin

Some leaves hang on longer but eventually they all fall. -- Marty Rubin

Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action. -- Marty Rubin

Some people have no talent but we can't all be that lucky. -- Marty Rubin

In love there are no rules, only exceptions. -- Marty Rubin

Some things are so useless one can't live without them. -- Marty Rubin

When dealing with one's internal demons, denial works best. -- Marty Rubin

Tears have always been easier to shed than explain. -- Marty Rubin

Destiny exists only in retrospect. -- Marty Rubin

What makes any life beautful is the simple fact of living it. -- Marty Rubin

What makes a life-any life-beautiful is the simple fact of living it. -- Marty Rubin

Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake. -- Marty Rubin

To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory. -- Marty Rubin

The real rain dance is when the rain dances. -- Marty Rubin

Even music can't compete with the wildflowers and waterfalls. -- Marty Rubin

Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground. -- Marty Rubin

One must always rebel against fear and hate and affirm life. -- Marty Rubin

If you don't love the sea, the sun, all the simple pleasures, what sort of life are you going to have? -- Marty Rubin

There's no such thing as a typical person or a typical day. -- Marty Rubin

One is free, and at the mercy of everything. -- Marty Rubin

What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that. -- Marty Rubin

A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book. -- Marty Rubin

What perversity of mind made suffering a virtue and pleasure a sin? -- Marty Rubin

Ideology-the permission to hate. -- Marty Rubin

If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me. -- Marty Rubin

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind. -- Marty Rubin

Whatever success or acclaim an artist might achieve, it's just a bad job if you don't enjoy it. -- Marty Rubin

When you have no expectations, they're easy to fulfill. -- Marty Rubin

It is not miserable to have a heart, it is miserable to deny it. -- Marty Rubin

If a single person dies, the battle has been lost. -- Marty Rubin

The hammer never complains of the noise. -- Marty Rubin

Neither objectivity nor subjectivity seem to make much sense. -- Marty Rubin

The hardest thing: not to take loss personally. -- Marty Rubin

If you believe in nothing else, believe in your freedom. -- Marty Rubin

Ruins are the cathedrals of Time. -- Marty Rubin

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth. -- Marty Rubin

We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought. -- Marty Rubin

Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things. -- Marty Rubin

Once you've mastered starting and stopping, the rest is easy. -- Marty Rubin

Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage. -- Marty Rubin

To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory. -- Marty Rubin

One doesn't play music; one surrenders to it. -- Marty Rubin

Unlike wine, bad ideas don't improve with age. -- Marty Rubin

Look up at the moon; don't think about yourself. -- Marty Rubin

One has to be suspicious of anyone who seeks the limelight. -- Marty Rubin

Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind. -- Marty Rubin

The problem is not religion but the void that creates religions. -- Marty Rubin

Love does not depend on understanding; understanding depends on love. -- Marty Rubin

The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love. -- Marty Rubin

Happy people live. Unhappy people tell others how to live. -- Marty Rubin

The void can only be filled with love. -- Marty Rubin

In the morning I don't want to know where I'll be in the afternoon. -- Marty Rubin

Bad bets sometimes pay off. -- Marty Rubin

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words. -- Marty Rubin

Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love. -- Marty Rubin

My greatest pleasure is to travel down an unfamiliar road. -- Marty Rubin

Where the signposts end, the trail begins. -- Marty Rubin

History furnishes scant evidence of the goodwill of the people. -- Marty Rubin

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us. -- Marty Rubin

The importance of unimportant things cannot be overstated. -- Marty Rubin

When you separate knowledge from life, you get philosophy. -- Marty Rubin

I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing. -- Marty Rubin

We cling to love's illusions because they're real. -- Marty Rubin

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them. -- Marty Rubin

Summer is the season of wild birds. -- Marty Rubin

We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet. -- Marty Rubin

You can rob from the poor to give to the rich. It's legal. -- Marty Rubin

The only magic cure is to endure. -- Marty Rubin

When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side. -- Marty Rubin

Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself. -- Marty Rubin

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it. -- Marty Rubin

It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing. -- Marty Rubin

We know the tree will die someday but we plant it anyway. -- Marty Rubin

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds. -- Marty Rubin

Who can I speak for but myself? -- Marty Rubin

What a sad life when one loves nothing and no one. -- Marty Rubin

It's hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics. -- Marty Rubin

What good is a song that doesn't break your heart? -- Marty Rubin

California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York. -- Marty Rubin

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all. -- Marty Rubin

Death kills us once; worry kills us every day. -- Marty Rubin

Freedom is what we do; fate is what happens to us. -- Marty Rubin

A complicated idea is a confused idea. -- Marty Rubin

The best thing in life is having someone to share it with. -- Marty Rubin

Lead only if no one is following. -- Marty Rubin

We are all on loan to each other and nothing belongs to us. -- Marty Rubin

Clear thinking is to think of nothing at all. -- Marty Rubin

It is better to pay attention than to have ideas about things. -- Marty Rubin

When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up. -- Marty Rubin

What one is afraid to think must be the truth. -- Marty Rubin

That we live in a godless universe is a reason to celebrate not despair. -- Marty Rubin

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought. -- Marty Rubin

The next moment is unknown, even to God. -- Marty Rubin

Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go. -- Marty Rubin

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life. -- Marty Rubin

The mark of the coward is that he attacks the defenseless. -- Marty Rubin

Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself. -- Marty Rubin

Art is an extension of friendship, a reaching out to the world. -- Marty Rubin

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity. -- Marty Rubin

Self-sacrifice is something other people always have to pay for. -- Marty Rubin

Apart from myths and lies, what else is there but silence? -- Marty Rubin

Anyone who sets themselves up as an authority on life is a charlatan. -- Marty Rubin

Mannequins can't dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them. -- Marty Rubin

In the same way mannequins resemble people, fiction resembles life. -- Marty Rubin

If you can abuse your power you have too much. -- Marty Rubin

If you've loved the life you've lived, who can take that away from you? -- Marty Rubin

The direction a cloud moves is always approved of by the wind. -- Marty Rubin

The best job in the world is discovering life for yourself. -- Marty Rubin

The purpose of art is to add to our quality of life. -- Marty Rubin

A good joke is life laughing at itself. -- Marty Rubin

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd. -- Marty Rubin

Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm. -- Marty Rubin

A shooting star yields very little light. -- Marty Rubin

Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought. -- Marty Rubin

Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another. -- Marty Rubin

It's not true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred. -- Marty Rubin

The way to my heart is through your heart. -- Marty Rubin

Love, and love alone, drives out fear. -- Marty Rubin

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live. -- Marty Rubin

Moths don't need to explain why they're attracted to the light. -- Marty Rubin

Moths don't need to explain why their attracted to the light. -- Marty Rubin

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard. -- Marty Rubin

What you fill your days with, fills your days. -- Marty Rubin

In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon. -- Marty Rubin

If you believe in winners and losers you're one of the losers. -- Marty Rubin

Be something! That's the inscription written over the gates of hell. -- Marty Rubin

The aquariums of the imagination contain only dead fish. -- Marty Rubin

Who can explain life? Who can understand it? Like cats, we just do what we do. -- Marty Rubin

There is music the moment you start listening. -- Marty Rubin

For a true love, even forever isn't enough. -- Marty Rubin

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't. -- Marty Rubin

There are no rules in love except to love. -- Marty Rubin

It's no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn't agree. -- Marty Rubin

People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is. -- Marty Rubin

No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens. -- Marty Rubin

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said. -- Marty Rubin

Always do the thing that makes you feel most alive. -- Marty Rubin

You can't learn anything from a person who knows everything. -- Marty Rubin

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be. -- Marty Rubin

I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead. -- Marty Rubin

Life proves everything, arguments nothing. -- Marty Rubin

How the world loves her sad songs! -- Marty Rubin

The punishment for acting helpless is to find oneself at the mercy of others. -- Marty Rubin

Freedom of thought is meaningless without the freedom to act. -- Marty Rubin

With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again. -- Marty Rubin

Cynicism springs from disappointments in love. -- Marty Rubin

Believe only in the thing that actually happens. -- Marty Rubin

Human nature is water, not stone. -- Marty Rubin

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. -- Marty Rubin

It's not an artist's job to change people or save the world. -- Marty Rubin

Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself. -- Marty Rubin

What movement! What restlessness! Even the mountains can't stand still. -- Marty Rubin

What chance does logic have against a glass of wine and a kiss? -- Marty Rubin

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else. -- Marty Rubin

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works. -- Marty Rubin

The gold you have to dig for is not the real gold. -- Marty Rubin

Music's power is like love's power: one can feel but never understand it. -- Marty Rubin

One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart. -- Marty Rubin

Ambitious people baffle me. What are they looking for, what do they think they're missing? -- Marty Rubin

The more I write, the less I understand why. -- Marty Rubin

If the cockroaches survive and we don't, what does that say about human intelligence? -- Marty Rubin

All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time. -- Marty Rubin

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects. -- Marty Rubin

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words? -- Marty Rubin

People shouldn't question their desires. They should just live. -- Marty Rubin

Memory is weak, imagination strong. -- Marty Rubin

Things imagined are as real as things seen. -- Marty Rubin

The brightest stars don't necessarily give the most light. -- Marty Rubin

No art is harder to master than believing in yourself. -- Marty Rubin

Is hell the way to heaven? I think it's the way to hell. -- Marty Rubin

You can always trust a lazy person to be at their best. -- Marty Rubin

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes -- Marty Rubin

The unemotional life is not worth living. -- Marty Rubin

Everything in moderation, even the truth -- Marty Rubin

An echo has no voice of its own. -- Marty Rubin

Understanding is a constant process of losing and regaining one's balance. -- Marty Rubin

A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot. -- Marty Rubin

Thirst is a language even the grass understands. -- Marty Rubin

The depth of one's grief equals the depth of one's love. -- Marty Rubin

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile -- Marty Rubin

To be ignorant as God is ignorant, knowing only what is real. -- Marty Rubin

Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other. -- Marty Rubin

Cherish like a son, a daughter, each irreplaceable moment. -- Marty Rubin

Our lives are not intelligible to us. -- Marty Rubin

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. -- Marty Rubin

The best thing about having money is that you can use it to help someone else. -- Marty Rubin

Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves. -- Marty Rubin

One moment you're fire; the next smoke. -- Marty Rubin

Only fools think bigness and greatness are the same thing. -- Marty Rubin

Adam named every creature in the garden. And we've been paying for his presumption ever since. -- Marty Rubin

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction. -- Marty Rubin

To dance sublimely, one has to forget all about dancing. -- Marty Rubin

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value. -- Marty Rubin

When loneliness wants to hide, it hides in a crowd. -- Marty Rubin

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases. -- Marty Rubin

Believing in yourself is the best poetry. -- Marty Rubin

To hate everything is to be wounded by everything. -- Marty Rubin

Truth resides in the wealth of experience. -- Marty Rubin

Don't stare out the window; run through the fields. -- Marty Rubin

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time. -- Marty Rubin

No story is ever the whole story. -- Marty Rubin

Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked. -- Marty Rubin

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real. -- Marty Rubin

The weaker the will, the stronger the faith. -- Marty Rubin

I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn. -- Marty Rubin

Useless"-what they call you when you won't let yourself be used. -- Marty Rubin

Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it. -- Marty Rubin

Delight in your body, in your sensuality. Don't be ashamed of it. -- Marty Rubin

Only sad, little people condemn the pleasures of others. -- Marty Rubin

It is human nature to overdo a thing until one gets sick of it. -- Marty Rubin

Feel free to follow your own path while I follow mine. -- Marty Rubin

Everyone dies young. -- Marty Rubin

Death kills you once; worry kills you every day. -- Marty Rubin

It's the children who never played with fire that get burnt. -- Marty Rubin

What is deeply felt is never lost. -- Marty Rubin

The new is a guest in the house of the old. -- Marty Rubin

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings. -- Marty Rubin

Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes. -- Marty Rubin

Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone. -- Marty Rubin

Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed. -- Marty Rubin

Even if you're just shouting into a void, self-expression is a healing thing. -- Marty Rubin

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about -- Marty Rubin

What a long journey in order to become nothing! -- Marty Rubin

The craving for recognition is every artist's Achilles heel. -- Marty Rubin

What has the power to terrify us also has the power to inspire us. -- Marty Rubin

Whatever has the power to inspire us also has the power to terrify us. -- Marty Rubin

Dreams: a door through which the dead return. -- Marty Rubin

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth. -- Marty Rubin

The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly. -- Marty Rubin

However far-reaching one's visions or ideas, one must start from where one is. -- Marty Rubin

Opinions are what make you old. -- Marty Rubin

Life is not a search for answers but the answer itself. -- Marty Rubin

Even the poor are rich in prejudices. -- Marty Rubin

The world is real; philosophy is the illusion. -- Marty Rubin

Try me. I'm always in the mood for something else. -- Marty Rubin

The sun is my wine. -- Marty Rubin

Diseased organs get the most attention. -- Marty Rubin

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality. -- Marty Rubin

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. -- Marty Rubin

To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic. -- Marty Rubin

A clean house is a sad house. -- Marty Rubin

Everyone sees only their own image in the mirror of thought. -- Marty Rubin

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love. -- Marty Rubin

People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can't bend it to their will. -- Marty Rubin

We are always changing, always different, and yet strangely and recognizably always the same. -- Marty Rubin

Words have to make sense; facts don't. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all. -- Marty Rubin

The only truths that last are the truths of the heart. -- Marty Rubin

Boredom is a great catalyst. -- Marty Rubin

To know your soul is your own, that's what counts. -- Marty Rubin

The trouble with indifference is that one can never be indifferent enough. -- Marty Rubin

Freedom, too, can be a trap if you pursue it too doggedly. -- Marty Rubin

When love becomes an effort, it ceases to be love. -- Marty Rubin

The knots in the wood can't be untied. -- Marty Rubin

What if you have all the pieces and puzzle still doesn't fit? -- Marty Rubin

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing. -- Marty Rubin

It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are. -- Marty Rubin

Forget everything you've done. Start over. -- Marty Rubin

Always be skeptical of what you learn from experience. -- Marty Rubin

Realism is life minus the poetry. -- Marty Rubin

With every leaf that falls the tree loses a memory. -- Marty Rubin

Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one. -- Marty Rubin

Walking with a crutch is still walking on one's own. -- Marty Rubin

Art is great fun but it's not important. What's important is to be healthy and love. -- Marty Rubin

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated. -- Marty Rubin

Works of art create their own rules. -- Marty Rubin

They'll call you a liar, if the truth you tell is yours. -- Marty Rubin

What do I care about the universe? It's people who will miss me when I'm gone. -- Marty Rubin

All poets are religious poets. -- Marty Rubin

Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas. -- Marty Rubin

Imagination cannot be coerced, it has a mind of its own. -- Marty Rubin

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money. -- Marty Rubin

I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution. -- Marty Rubin

Spring, the snow must go; fall, the leaves can't stay. -- Marty Rubin

Work is the ultimate addiction. -- Marty Rubin

A sad day: when beauty became a commodity. -- Marty Rubin

Wonderland is a real a place as Africa or Asia. -- Marty Rubin

The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality. -- Marty Rubin

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone. -- Marty Rubin

It is impossible to be wise, and not love. -- Marty Rubin

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped. -- Marty Rubin

One explains things until things have no meaning anymore. -- Marty Rubin

We are born free, but are taught to obey orders. -- Marty Rubin

Every side attacks you when you don't take sides. -- Marty Rubin

The iris on its tall stem: neither seeking nor waiting. -- Marty Rubin

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry. -- Marty Rubin

Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions. -- Marty Rubin

Politics is a trivial diversion from the business of living. -- Marty Rubin

To be fulfilled and happy it is enough simply to exist. -- Marty Rubin

When you don't decide, life decides for you. -- Marty Rubin

Bad music is always the loudest. -- Marty Rubin

We are as ignorant of the meaning of our least gesture as we are of life itself. -- Marty Rubin

Relentless rain, like a non-stop talker. -- Marty Rubin

The pieces of a puzzle aren't together or apart. -- Marty Rubin

Is that so tragic: to die not knowing? -- Marty Rubin

Unless I speak, you won't see me. -- Marty Rubin

There are no sad days, only sad thoughts. -- Marty Rubin

The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. -- Marty Rubin

The universe isn't for or against us; it isn't even indifferent. -- Marty Rubin

Things are what they are, even when you don't know what they are. -- Marty Rubin

Riots are started by the police and blamed on dissidents. -- Marty Rubin

We choose our friends; our enemies choose us. -- Marty Rubin

To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life. -- Marty Rubin

What good is being a math genius if your life doesn't add up? -- Marty Rubin

Tyranny is the desire to have the last word. -- Marty Rubin

In life, we have common experiences; in art, uncommon ones. -- Marty Rubin

We are important to ourselves and to those who love us. That's enough importance for anyone. -- Marty Rubin

An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true. -- Marty Rubin

Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar. -- Marty Rubin

The right to privacy is the pre-eminent right of any democracy. -- Marty Rubin

Be yourself, or whatever self you'd like to be. -- Marty Rubin

It's only in mirrors that people get old. -- Marty Rubin

The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive. -- Marty Rubin

Convention is a jealous god and, like Saturn, eats its babies. -- Marty Rubin

We don't need to face our demons, we only need to face reality. -- Marty Rubin

One's deepest struggles are never with the world, but always with oneself. -- Marty Rubin

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them. -- Marty Rubin

Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart. -- Marty Rubin

Change is always trivial compared to what doesn't change. -- Marty Rubin

Every drop of dew before it fades must feel itself immortal. -- Marty Rubin

When you fill a void, isn't the void still there? -- Marty Rubin

I don't believe in the search. I believe in happiness now. -- Marty Rubin

One would like to live poetically, that is, with gratitude and grace. -- Marty Rubin

Beliefs and opinions are nonsense. I don't even want to know what I think. -- Marty Rubin

Never seek; only find. -- Marty Rubin

The pessimist! Whenever something good came along, he knew how to make the worst of it. -- Marty Rubin

We shape our lives around words, words whose meanings are always changing. -- Marty Rubin

Like Adam and Eve we have to discover what life is all by ourselves. -- Marty Rubin

The little girl riding her bicycle. Never once did she wonder: Is this worthwhile? -- Marty Rubin

Sometimes the only way to make something happen is to do nothing. -- Marty Rubin

First the nest; then the flight. -- Marty Rubin

Write as if the wind will erase every word. -- Marty Rubin

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth. -- Marty Rubin

Humor is heartbreak in reverse. -- Marty Rubin

Sometimes out of sheer perversity reality conforms to my wishes. -- Marty Rubin

The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination. -- Marty Rubin

When the fever is gone, you forget about it. The same should be true of everything else. -- Marty Rubin

Memory puts a halo around everything it thinks has vanished forever. -- Marty Rubin

I prefer to drift rather than steer toward some known shore. -- Marty Rubin

Words make known. But we live in the unknown. -- Marty Rubin

Play your music so the earth can dance. -- Marty Rubin

Are the grapes bitter or sweet? You have to taste. -- Marty Rubin

Out of ignorance, out of confusion, arise the true words. -- Marty Rubin

Unseen influences are the most persuasive. -- Marty Rubin

A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality. -- Marty Rubin

A light heart can carry the most weight. -- Marty Rubin

What you haven't experienced is also a part of you. -- Marty Rubin

Most of our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence. -- Marty Rubin

When you think about something you give it an importance it doesn't have. -- Marty Rubin

The poet's task is to give every echo a voice. -- Marty Rubin

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination. -- Marty Rubin

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live. -- Marty Rubin

Money isn't everything, but you'll never convince money. -- Marty Rubin

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night. -- Marty Rubin

I don't like to go anywhere. I just like to go. -- Marty Rubin

Error is the school we learn in. -- Marty Rubin

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do. -- Marty Rubin

Limbo is worse than hell. -- Marty Rubin

We are the mountains we must cross. -- Marty Rubin

Opinions are not facts; and neither are most facts. -- Marty Rubin

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. -- Marty Rubin

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place. -- Marty Rubin

Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it. -- Marty Rubin

For lack of love one does a million other things. -- Marty Rubin

Cowardice is the fear of contradiction. -- Marty Rubin

Great art ignites a passion for freedom. -- Marty Rubin

Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes. -- Marty Rubin

Life is beautiful, life is good. There should be signs and posters everywhere. -- Marty Rubin

Self-consciousness is hell. -- Marty Rubin

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost. -- Marty Rubin

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours. -- Marty Rubin

Words can't save you, but they can give you courage. -- Marty Rubin

I admire the fog, how it fades into itself. -- Marty Rubin

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it. -- Marty Rubin

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them. -- Marty Rubin

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success. -- Marty Rubin

We love those to whom we can tell our story. -- Marty Rubin

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness. -- Marty Rubin

What does introspection mean? It means you're looking in the wrong direction. -- Marty Rubin

Trust the one with experience not the one with ideas. -- Marty Rubin

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual. -- Marty Rubin

It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine. -- Marty Rubin

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard. -- Marty Rubin

Half of enjoying a thing is expecting to enjoy it. -- Marty Rubin

When sad, sing; when very sad, dance. -- Marty Rubin

Philosophy is one thing, life another. -- Marty Rubin

When a man dies, his death dies with him. -- Marty Rubin

With all our ideas and explanations we only trivialize life. -- Marty Rubin

Absence casts the longest shadow. -- Marty Rubin

Ambition is the death of joy. -- Marty Rubin

We need sentiment and skepticism. Sentiment to be happy; skepticism to be free. -- Marty Rubin

Poetry, like blood, runs through our veins. -- Marty Rubin

Make your life beautiful; you're the only one who can. -- Marty Rubin

The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look. -- Marty Rubin

The fanciful is as much a part of our reality as the factual. -- Marty Rubin

Paint what does not exist. -- Marty Rubin

It's incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying. -- Marty Rubin

Love thrives on trust ad withers in its absence. -- Marty Rubin

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard. -- Marty Rubin

When you're living, just living, dreams come true you never knew you had. -- Marty Rubin

Sometimes being indifferent solves everything. -- Marty Rubin

Only the degraded want to degrade others. -- Marty Rubin

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing. -- Marty Rubin

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world. -- Marty Rubin

Writers are the biggest liars, only the best. -- Marty Rubin

Never join two things that would be happier apart. -- Marty Rubin

We know birth and we know death; the mystery is everything in-between. -- Marty Rubin

The unsaid rules every conversation. -- Marty Rubin

You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own. -- Marty Rubin

In your body right now exists all the joy and grief of the world. -- Marty Rubin

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having. -- Marty Rubin

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one. -- Marty Rubin

Bring a song with you into the darkness. -- Marty Rubin

Nothing is more inspiring than audacity in the old. -- Marty Rubin

Love is not cold and what is cold is not love. -- Marty Rubin

It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery. -- Marty Rubin

The truest philosophy is the one that raises the most doubts. -- Marty Rubin

Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers. -- Marty Rubin

Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus. -- Marty Rubin

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you. -- Marty Rubin

Knowledge is the name professors give to the confusion they create. -- Marty Rubin

Where the truth is censored, the truth grows fangs. -- Marty Rubin

We are always traveling into the unknown. -- Marty Rubin

Water flows because it's willing. -- Marty Rubin

Like Puck I like it best when things turn out preposterously. -- Marty Rubin

Art is a supplement to life, not a replacement. -- Marty Rubin

The meaning of life is to enjoy it. -- Marty Rubin

Never doubt! Never despair! Many will love you, if you let them. -- Marty Rubin

Never deny yourself any pleasure, real or imaginary. -- Marty Rubin

Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life. -- Marty Rubin

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. -- Marty Rubin

One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment. -- Marty Rubin

Hate's ultimate victory is to make us dependent on it. -- Marty Rubin

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun. -- Marty Rubin

Wonder, like life, ignores logic. -- Marty Rubin

We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live. -- Marty Rubin

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it. -- Marty Rubin

No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night. -- Marty Rubin

Applause: the echo of a platitude. -- Marty Rubin

From one dog all the dogs bark. -- Marty Rubin

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different -- Marty Rubin

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect. -- Marty Rubin

To be active is to be awake, spiritually and physically. -- Marty Rubin

What you can't do, you can't know. -- Marty Rubin

It is possible to know all the facts and still know nothing. -- Marty Rubin

Between the theories and your life, choose your life. -- Marty Rubin

The great difficulty in life is deciding what and what not to pay attention to. -- Marty Rubin

I adore a vacuum ... a place to rest. -- Marty Rubin

The greatest sense is indistinguishable from the greatest nonsense. -- Marty Rubin

Mirages distract us until we die of thirst. -- Marty Rubin

Confusion is a web of words. -- Marty Rubin

Every morning a new sun greets us and our new life begins. -- Marty Rubin

Hamlet: the agony of the bookworm forced to be a man of action. -- Marty Rubin

Be alive to the moment, that's all you can do. -- Marty Rubin

Beauty is the desire for beauty. -- Marty Rubin

Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home. -- Marty Rubin

Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness. -- Marty Rubin

Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself. -- Marty Rubin

The thing that seems most natural to me-most human-is movement. -- Marty Rubin

Words are the best bargain. You get them for free and they never run out. -- Marty Rubin

You don't know how to live. You live. -- Marty Rubin

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom. -- Marty Rubin

History is barbaric to me because it omits all traces of the personal. -- Marty Rubin

The world is so big and words are so small! -- Marty Rubin

All talk is small talk. -- Marty Rubin

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise. -- Marty Rubin

We choose a path, but not what's on it. -- Marty Rubin

I don't need anyone else to tell me how to be alive. -- Marty Rubin

Speed is no advantage round a vicious circle. -- Marty Rubin

You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it. -- Marty Rubin

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes. -- Marty Rubin

We live first and find reasons later. -- Marty Rubin

What you're afraid to think must be the truth. -- Marty Rubin

Do everything and nothing is done. -- Marty Rubin

The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists. -- Marty Rubin

True wealth: a life rich in experience. -- Marty Rubin

Whatever we do to please or harm others, we do to ourselves. -- Marty Rubin

The wind and the waves will toss you about, but it'll all be worth it. -- Marty Rubin

Life is too short for regrets. -- Marty Rubin

Every day sing and dance and feel the joy. -- Marty Rubin

The sun loves to be eclipsed. -- Marty Rubin

Wrapped up in our thoughts we can't hear love or beauty's song. -- Marty Rubin

The familiar is by far the most beautiful. -- Marty Rubin

A full human life: one which embraces all the wonders of nature and the imagination. -- Marty Rubin

You have to touch the tree to know whether it's smooth or rough. -- Marty Rubin

We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves. -- Marty Rubin

Water has never known thirst. -- Marty Rubin

The memories we're fondest of are not always our own -- Marty Rubin

How different every hour is from the one before! -- Marty Rubin

A chain grows weaker with each new link. -- Marty Rubin

Our way of thinking causes us more pain than all our misfortunes. -- Marty Rubin

Hypocrisy is the homage freedom pays to social convention. -- Marty Rubin

The great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun. -- Marty Rubin

Writing is a provocation. -- Marty Rubin

You don't have to have a dream for it to come true. -- Marty Rubin

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you? -- Marty Rubin

Where the rich are concerned, the law goes begging. -- Marty Rubin

You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. -- Marty Rubin

What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all. -- Marty Rubin

We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say. -- Marty Rubin

The kind-hearted won't inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live. -- Marty Rubin

Wars have always been easier to fight than explain. -- Marty Rubin

I prefer Nature's indifference to God's love. -- Marty Rubin

Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body. -- Marty Rubin

Space-the illusion that one is getting somewhere. -- Marty Rubin

The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism. -- Marty Rubin

Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game. -- Marty Rubin

Irony is only skin deep. -- Marty Rubin

The skies give no warning when they fall. -- Marty Rubin

We are propelled past loss and grief by the force of our desires. -- Marty Rubin

No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own. -- Marty Rubin

What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit? -- Marty Rubin

Acting silly is one of the primal pleasures. -- Marty Rubin

To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory. -- Marty Rubin

What is a false statement today may be a true one tomorrow. -- Marty Rubin

They will tell you you're immoral, if you want to be free. -- Marty Rubin

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary. -- Marty Rubin

The sea answers only to the sea. -- Marty Rubin

Words of the hero: "I am my fate. -- Marty Rubin

It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent. -- Marty Rubin

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society. -- Marty Rubin

That's what art does: it breaks down walls. -- Marty Rubin

Making children happy is the best art. -- Marty Rubin

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it. -- Marty Rubin

I'm not anti-intellectual, just anti-misery. -- Marty Rubin

Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates. -- Marty Rubin

The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up. -- Marty Rubin

When love becomes a perfect fire it leaves only ashes. -- Marty Rubin

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing. -- Marty Rubin

I never met a dog lover I didn't like. -- Marty Rubin

To be a light in a child's world, what could be more beautiful? -- Marty Rubin

Be the exception, and be happy. -- Marty Rubin

What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living. -- Marty Rubin

We are propelled through life by the force of our desires. -- Marty Rubin

Smoking is unhealthy but not as unhealthy as being forbidden to smoke. -- Marty Rubin

In a war between evils, only evil wins. -- Marty Rubin

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing. -- Marty Rubin

What an artist finds, he finds without looking for it. -- Marty Rubin

In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live. -- Marty Rubin

All explanations tend to be self-serving. -- Marty Rubin

Seize the day, then let it go. -- Marty Rubin

One death apiece is plenty. -- Marty Rubin

Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others. -- Marty Rubin

The waterfall winks at every passerby. -- Marty Rubin

On the blank page all things are possible. -- Marty Rubin

You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do. -- Marty Rubin

The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming. -- Marty Rubin

Nothing revives hope and confidence like a good fantasy. -- Marty Rubin

Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them. -- Marty Rubin

We should be horrified by people who die for causes, not make heroes out of them. -- Marty Rubin

The saddest thing about old age is our idea of it. -- Marty Rubin

Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way. -- Marty Rubin

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud. -- Marty Rubin