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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
Enjoy today, the time you have now, for time cannot be found only lost. -- Marty Rubin
You can always count on God to do nothing. -- Marty Rubin
Luck is everything in love, though we hate to admit it. -- Marty Rubin
Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth. -- Marty Rubin
Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge. -- Marty Rubin
Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings. -- Marty Rubin
Death is never more than an instant nor less than an eternity away. -- Marty Rubin
Sing, dance, laugh, love, or you'll be stuck with words. -- Marty Rubin
If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough. -- Marty Rubin
The main thing is to be full of life. Everything else is secondary. -- Marty Rubin
Whatever I love to do I will always try to find the easiest and most pleasant way to do it. -- Marty Rubin
The writer's job is to free language from the prison of ideas. -- Marty Rubin
If perception were reality, bats could fly through cave walls. -- Marty Rubin
Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous. -- Marty Rubin
The singing I like best is when I sing. -- Marty Rubin
What is alienation? Thought. -- Marty Rubin
Art's aim is life, a deeper connection with life. -- Marty Rubin
It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years. -- Marty Rubin
The things we truly need to say are best said through action. -- Marty Rubin
Art should be sublime and a little silly. -- Marty Rubin
Since our fears are mostly imaginary denial makes good sense. -- Marty Rubin
My calm is like the tides: never at rest. -- Marty Rubin
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them. -- Marty Rubin
We waste this life dreaming of another. -- Marty Rubin
Know thyself? Why not forget yourself instead? -- Marty Rubin
You don't have to be Isadora Duncan to love dancing. -- Marty Rubin
Love doesn't excuse our faults: it makes them insignificant. -- Marty Rubin
I think we should love life, nature, other people, more than ourselves. -- Marty Rubin
What feels good must be good. -- Marty Rubin
When the poor steal, it's the rich who profit. -- Marty Rubin
Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim. -- Marty Rubin
Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. -- Marty Rubin
Advanced civilization: one without advanced technology. -- Marty Rubin
Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell. -- Marty Rubin
Sex is natural, but enjoying it's an art. -- Marty Rubin
Artists should paint whatever they like. -- Marty Rubin
In dreams and stories we rearrange our lives. -- Marty Rubin
People shouldn't analyze their passions. They should just live. -- Marty Rubin
If a single person dies, the revolution has been lost. -- Marty Rubin
When living and loving could be so easy, why do we make it so hard? -- Marty Rubin
What fills the gap created by a loss of faith is not reason but instinct. -- Marty Rubin
What doesn't kill us makes a good story. -- Marty Rubin
Is there anything in the world more useless than an afterthought? -- Marty Rubin
What is love after all but trusting in the unknown. -- Marty Rubin
Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name. -- Marty Rubin
The most outrageous tale you can tell is somebody's truth. -- Marty Rubin
It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about. -- Marty Rubin
A perpetual scandal: honoring the dead. -- Marty Rubin
Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have. -- Marty Rubin
What is love after but trusting in the unknown. -- Marty Rubin
Our perception of what's real is always changing and that never changes. -- Marty Rubin
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry. -- Marty Rubin
The wasp that loses its stinger, dies. -- Marty Rubin
Life may be nothing but a series of detours. -- Marty Rubin
The kindest thing one can say about critics is that they're extraneous. -- Marty Rubin
All extreme opinions consume themselves. -- Marty Rubin
To go to any extreme is to limit oneself. -- Marty Rubin
Truth is in the middle against all sides. -- Marty Rubin
Art is a game of skill, not chance. -- Marty Rubin
The existence of things does not depend on the existence of words. -- Marty Rubin
I don't believe in literature-I believe in conversation. -- Marty Rubin
Everything that is real lasts only for a moment. -- Marty Rubin
Freedom's chains are the hardest to break. -- Marty Rubin
There is a madness that is joy, and a madness that is just madness. -- Marty Rubin
One can no more translate movement into words than music into words. -- Marty Rubin
Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. -- Marty Rubin
Altruist: a person who likes to help people more than they like to be helped. -- Marty Rubin
Noise is democratic; silence, aritocratic -- Marty Rubin
Order is what exists before you start arranging things. -- Marty Rubin
There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems. -- Marty Rubin
Poetry is a sixth sense. -- Marty Rubin
A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day. -- Marty Rubin
You can't dissect a dream without killing it. -- Marty Rubin
Beauty is nonchalance. -- Marty Rubin
Any place is a good place to begin. -- Marty Rubin
A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world. -- Marty Rubin
To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing. -- Marty Rubin
A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair. -- Marty Rubin
Chipmunks have the best instinct: run and hide. -- Marty Rubin
History is the record of intolerance. -- Marty Rubin
Pornography robs sex of its mystery. That's why men like it. -- Marty Rubin
The greatest happiness is seeing the people you love happy. -- Marty Rubin
I only envy people who are friendlier than I am. -- Marty Rubin
A scent of lavender cannot be put into words. -- Marty Rubin
Only a free hand can draw a free line. -- Marty Rubin
You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced. -- Marty Rubin
When one is well-read, one has a lot of illusion to overcome. -- Marty Rubin
Things are beautiful when they're allowed to be free. -- Marty Rubin
Faith is pretending that you're not pretending. -- Marty Rubin
In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life. -- Marty Rubin
Fighting only hurts when you stop. -- Marty Rubin
When being happy could be so easy, why do people make it so hard? -- Marty Rubin
Fear of boredom is the most scathing self-criticism. -- Marty Rubin
Optimists think badly, but live well. -- Marty Rubin
Art is fire, science is light. -- Marty Rubin
There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about. -- Marty Rubin
Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around. -- Marty Rubin
The landscape looks different from every blade of grass. -- Marty Rubin
After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn. -- Marty Rubin
Never let a lack of money keep you from living like a millionaire. -- Marty Rubin
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. -- Marty Rubin
One half of the world fears stagnation and the other half change. -- Marty Rubin
Don't trust the one who stopped believing. Trust the one who never believed. -- Marty Rubin
The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old. -- Marty Rubin
When the wings are too heavy, the bird can't fly. -- Marty Rubin
We are alive and in the world and that is beautiful and everything. -- Marty Rubin
Keep your eyes open and you'll see more than you ever dreamed of. -- Marty Rubin
Write something the skeptics will sneer at. -- Marty Rubin
Creativity should include everything that makes one feel alive. -- Marty Rubin
In literature, sex is part of the story; in pornography, it's the whole story. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is more obscene to me than the glorification of suffering. -- Marty Rubin
The simple solution: do more, think less. -- Marty Rubin
We must act to free our minds, not think. -- Marty Rubin
Your life counts. That's the only fact you need to remember. -- Marty Rubin
Some truths can only be seen in the dark. -- Marty Rubin
The real love is the one that makes you forget all the others. -- Marty Rubin
A microbe is more deadly than a minotaur -- Marty Rubin
The key to happiness is independence. -- Marty Rubin
I'm not the person I used to be. I never was. -- Marty Rubin
What happens is always worth more than words. -- Marty Rubin
The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude. -- Marty Rubin
Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality. -- Marty Rubin
You don't learn art from life, or life from art. -- Marty Rubin
Numbness is not happiness. -- Marty Rubin
The story of the tree is written on every leaf. -- Marty Rubin
In a heart that truly loves life grief is always transitory. -- Marty Rubin
Intuition often sees where science is blind. -- Marty Rubin
World, O world, I follow my fancy, not yours! -- Marty Rubin
No dancer, not even the wind, can outdance the sea. -- Marty Rubin
Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls. -- Marty Rubin
If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie. -- Marty Rubin
When machines break down, it's people who suffer. -- Marty Rubin
When blessings come, they come on their own terms. -- Marty Rubin
More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea. -- Marty Rubin
The only reason to take anything seriously is to make it more fun. -- Marty Rubin
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. -- Marty Rubin
When the apple ripens it falls, it doesn't know what else to do. -- Marty Rubin
We fear the calm more than the storm. -- Marty Rubin
Tears are our first language and our last. -- Marty Rubin
Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics! -- Marty Rubin
Today's sin is tomorrow's alternative lifestyle. -- Marty Rubin
Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers. -- Marty Rubin
Live! It's no good if you just think about it. -- Marty Rubin
We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give. -- Marty Rubin
We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile -- Marty Rubin
Stop comparing yourself to others and you'll be happy. -- Marty Rubin
A long leash is not freedom. -- Marty Rubin
The poor want to be rich, the rich want to be God. -- Marty Rubin
The two best anti-aging agents: humor and a sense of wonder. -- Marty Rubin
The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free. -- Marty Rubin
Make fun, not war. -- Marty Rubin
Books end. Stories never do. -- Marty Rubin
Better locks just means better burglars. -- Marty Rubin
What you can't do, you don't know. -- Marty Rubin
Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers. -- Marty Rubin
Blessed are the dreamers, for they keep the rest of us awake. -- Marty Rubin
To speak of happiness is to create happiness. -- Marty Rubin
Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy. -- Marty Rubin
We forget more than we remember, we assume more than we know. -- Marty Rubin
I don't need a book to tell me how to be alive. -- Marty Rubin
It's our thoughts that are chaotic, not the world. -- Marty Rubin
Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves. -- Marty Rubin
Life is always dangerous and always mysterious. -- Marty Rubin
Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do. -- Marty Rubin
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. -- Marty Rubin
A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art. -- Marty Rubin
A broken mirror means good luck if you want it to. -- Marty Rubin
A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be. -- Marty Rubin
Who is satisfied, like the trees, with just existing? -- Marty Rubin
Every face is born with a thousand masks to go with it. -- Marty Rubin
When a man wants nothing, it's evil to tempt him with something. -- Marty Rubin
I'm more curious to know what a cat think than what a philosopher thinks. -- Marty Rubin
We don't know why anything is what it is. It just is. -- Marty Rubin
Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion. -- Marty Rubin
When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks. -- Marty Rubin
Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure. -- Marty Rubin
That life has no clear meaning is the best possible news for an artist. -- Marty Rubin
What life compares with a duck's life? At home on land, in the air and on water. -- Marty Rubin
We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey -- Marty Rubin
Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule. -- Marty Rubin
There is no destiny awaiting us except what we create through our own actions. -- Marty Rubin
The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do. -- Marty Rubin
Trust your senses most of the time, your intuition some of the time, and your conclusions never. -- Marty Rubin
The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain. -- Marty Rubin
The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever. -- Marty Rubin
It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing. -- Marty Rubin
Our talents don't define us any more than our faults. -- Marty Rubin
Politics: private interests masquerading as public concerns. -- Marty Rubin
We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves. -- Marty Rubin
The best way to combat bad ideas is not to believe in them. -- Marty Rubin
Content not to know my purpose here or where I'm going. -- Marty Rubin
No one can give you the answer because there is no answer. -- Marty Rubin
The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing. -- Marty Rubin
A philosophy must be livable; it can't just be ideas. -- Marty Rubin
Man is the only creature for whom being alive isn't enough. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is less like life than our idea of it. -- Marty Rubin
Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it. -- Marty Rubin
Maybe it will be a daisy, a white butterfly, a snowflake which transforms your life. -- Marty Rubin
I don't live my life wondering how to live my life. -- Marty Rubin
A grief travels with us as far as we carry it. -- Marty Rubin
One learns by doing, not by learning to do. -- Marty Rubin
The writer who's afraid to contradict himself will never write anything. -- Marty Rubin
We learn everything from experience, and what we learn we can't share or keep. -- Marty Rubin
You can win the lottery, but not an argument. -- Marty Rubin
Freedom is the kite's response to the wind. -- Marty Rubin
All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed. -- Marty Rubin
Love is suffering only when one refuses to love. -- Marty Rubin
If stupidity is the only sin, who is blameless? -- Marty Rubin
Knowing what you don't want is the same thing as knowing nothing. -- Marty Rubin
Don't let the worries of this foolish world destroy your joy in living. -- Marty Rubin
Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are. -- Marty Rubin
Accidents are built into the road. -- Marty Rubin
We are changed by the things we try to change. -- Marty Rubin
The scientists must be crazy themselves if they think they can explain this crazy world. -- Marty Rubin
An artist's work is one long conversation with life. -- Marty Rubin
Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown. -- Marty Rubin
Travel with joy, not to it. -- Marty Rubin
We work best when we're unaware of working -- Marty Rubin
Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls. -- Marty Rubin
What one does is always worth more than words. -- Marty Rubin
Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty. -- Marty Rubin
Dead ends are where the real thinking begins. -- Marty Rubin
To be a light in a child's world, nothing is more beautiful. -- Marty Rubin
Love hurts because we think that's what love is. -- Marty Rubin
There is no house until it's built. -- Marty Rubin
Where we go is not determined by where we want to go. -- Marty Rubin
The best days are the days that aren't planned. -- Marty Rubin
The way to live well is to feel intensely. -- Marty Rubin
Quality is what is popular a hundred years later. -- Marty Rubin
Even when one sleeps one is not wasting one's time. -- Marty Rubin
Excess is not progress. -- Marty Rubin
Writing is a way of facing life. -- Marty Rubin
Eternity: the length of a life. -- Marty Rubin
The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom. -- Marty Rubin
Cynicism-the pus from a wound. -- Marty Rubin
The loss of a possession frees us from it. -- Marty Rubin
Cities get built out of poet's dreams. -- Marty Rubin
We need movement, activity, as much as air and water. -- Marty Rubin
You don't have to finish what you start. But start. -- Marty Rubin
The most terrifying thing is one's own imagination. -- Marty Rubin
A coherent system is a convenient lie. -- Marty Rubin
Subservience is degrading, even if you like it. -- Marty Rubin
What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think. -- Marty Rubin
I think the greatest success any person can have is to truly embrace and enjoy their everyday life. -- Marty Rubin
Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice. -- Marty Rubin
Men are always ready to fight; it's tenderness that scares them. -- Marty Rubin
One should live as if the very rocks are glad you're here. -- Marty Rubin
He who wants nothing but to be happy already is. -- Marty Rubin
Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself. -- Marty Rubin
The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other. -- Marty Rubin
Professors stare down from their podiums; that's their insecurity. -- Marty Rubin
When you are the problem, it's hard to see it. -- Marty Rubin
When dealing with imaginary problems, denial works best. -- Marty Rubin
Self-contradiction is the most fruitful kind of contradiction. -- Marty Rubin
We're all on different paths but headed in the same direction. -- Marty Rubin
Sometimes you have to do nothing to make something happen. -- Marty Rubin
Writing poetry requires frequent visits to the land of the dead. -- Marty Rubin
Don't tell me where the time goes; I don't want to know. -- Marty Rubin
Morning will come, it has no choice. -- Marty Rubin
May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself. -- Marty Rubin
Rain is the picnic when it rains. -- Marty Rubin
Love is the desire for another's happiness. -- Marty Rubin
Even when the air seems perfectly still great changes are taking place. -- Marty Rubin
Facts are what matter, but how do you know which are the true ones? -- Marty Rubin
Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing -- Marty Rubin
Everything but a life can be replaced. -- Marty Rubin
No one plants rosebushes for the thorns. -- Marty Rubin
The laughter of children isn't mean or cutting, but pure and simple fun. -- Marty Rubin
Civilization: the human zoo -- Marty Rubin
More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love. -- Marty Rubin
Time is the school we learn in. -- Marty Rubin
Misery has a top, but no bottom. So you have to climb out. -- Marty Rubin
Nature is hiding nothing; that's its secret. -- Marty Rubin
When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones. -- Marty Rubin
Seeing is always an act of courage. -- Marty Rubin
The vague is the false. -- Marty Rubin
When evil fights evil, only evil wins. -- Marty Rubin
A man of reason? A disinterested philosopher? I'd rather be a puppy wagging its tail. -- Marty Rubin
Every writer knows that words are the enemy. -- Marty Rubin
It is easier to debunk a thousand myths than to write one true sentence. -- Marty Rubin
If words are the truth, what is living for? -- Marty Rubin
Humor is a second wind. -- Marty Rubin
I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me. -- Marty Rubin
Words fail me, but not feeling. The feeling never fails me. -- Marty Rubin
Life and love are never what you think they are. -- Marty Rubin
The demand for justice always exceeds the supply. -- Marty Rubin
Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win. -- Marty Rubin
How ironic that wild nature should humanize us while technology dehumanizes us! -- Marty Rubin
Hope is a temporary cure until a real one comes along. -- Marty Rubin
If the light's not in you, you're in the dark. -- Marty Rubin
Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love. -- Marty Rubin
There are no prescriptions for life. -- Marty Rubin
A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear. -- Marty Rubin
A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times. -- Marty Rubin
Moderation is an attempt to live within one's emotional means. -- Marty Rubin
The wise oyster stays in its shell. -- Marty Rubin
What a coincidence! The very things I'm writing are the very things no one wants to read. -- Marty Rubin
We freed ourselves from gods and kings, now we have to free ourselves from ourselves. -- Marty Rubin
To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself. -- Marty Rubin
Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing. -- Marty Rubin
Only the blank page need never apologize. -- Marty Rubin
Art is a manifestation of freedom. -- Marty Rubin
The deep roots never doubt spring will come. -- Marty Rubin
All love is true while it lasts. -- Marty Rubin
In politics, the fruit always turns sour before it can turn ripe. -- Marty Rubin
Do not pursue an abstract perfection. -- Marty Rubin
Sunlight streams out of the lucid mind. -- Marty Rubin
Anyone who equates freedom with madness is mad themselves. -- Marty Rubin
When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one. -- Marty Rubin
When we are bored it is always with ourselves we are bored. -- Marty Rubin
Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you. -- Marty Rubin
There is no order or freedom without simplicity. -- Marty Rubin
Only the illogical has any chance of being true. -- Marty Rubin
Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to. -- Marty Rubin
In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing else is needed to be a complete human being than to have been born a human being -- Marty Rubin
They'll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out. -- Marty Rubin
One step actually taken achieves more than a lifetime of planning. -- Marty Rubin
Something or someone is always waving goodbye. -- Marty Rubin
Dream as much as you like, but the world is not a dream. -- Marty Rubin
Beware of what you teach your children in the womb. -- Marty Rubin
I hate criticism, it makes me feel important. -- Marty Rubin
We are born free, but we're taught to obey orders. -- Marty Rubin
Culture is local; art, universal. -- Marty Rubin
No book or theory can serve as a substitute for lived experience. -- Marty Rubin
When you split a pie up evenly, everyone gets the worst piece. -- Marty Rubin
Living in a godless universe is our freedom, our salvation, not our tragedy. -- Marty Rubin
It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love. -- Marty Rubin
Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion. -- Marty Rubin
We don't know why anything happens or why anything is. -- Marty Rubin
The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets. -- Marty Rubin
When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. -- Marty Rubin
Don't worry about failure or rejection; no one knows what they're doing anyway. -- Marty Rubin
Morning not only forgives, it forgets. -- Marty Rubin
Telling the willow not to weep only makes it weep more. -- Marty Rubin
When people talk to themselves they should listen more. That's how writers are born. -- Marty Rubin
There are no safe voyages and no safe ports. -- Marty Rubin
The tallest mountain in Tibet is just part of the scenery. -- Marty Rubin
There is only one side to be on-the side of life. -- Marty Rubin
Remember: things only have the meaning and importance you give them. -- Marty Rubin
Hope can be as crippling as despair. -- Marty Rubin
The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. -- Marty Rubin
Never doubt that a single moment can change everything. -- Marty Rubin
Emotion is the poetry of life. -- Marty Rubin
I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more. -- Marty Rubin
I have found much in people to love but nothing to envy. -- Marty Rubin
Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath. -- Marty Rubin
Maybe there is no justice, only different degrees of injustice. -- Marty Rubin
The cruelest countries have the most laws. -- Marty Rubin
Thinking must never be a substitute for action. -- Marty Rubin
Teach your children to think "we" not "them" and "us. -- Marty Rubin
The secret to being loved is to let yourself be loved. -- Marty Rubin
Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold -- Marty Rubin
The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are. -- Marty Rubin
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. -- Marty Rubin
Summer, like a kiss, trembles when it first arrives. -- Marty Rubin
The dead sleep soundly but do not dream. -- Marty Rubin
Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures. -- Marty Rubin
Why do people value most the things they haven't got? -- Marty Rubin
Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph. -- Marty Rubin
Hope may spring eternal in the human breast but it only materializes through action. -- Marty Rubin
Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. -- Marty Rubin
Love is the body's warmth; sex, its heat. -- Marty Rubin
Better to stand still than travel in a hurry. -- Marty Rubin
There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story. -- Marty Rubin
Humanity's favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn't know. -- Marty Rubin
Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition. -- Marty Rubin
A good story will always outlive the truth. -- Marty Rubin
Misery, like life, is what you make it. -- Marty Rubin
Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns. -- Marty Rubin
My eyes are not for sale and nobody owns the world. -- Marty Rubin
It is not knowledge that makes an artist -- Marty Rubin
Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against. -- Marty Rubin
Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars. -- Marty Rubin
The rain dripping from the leaves expressed my thought best. -- Marty Rubin
We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder. -- Marty Rubin
Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it. -- Marty Rubin
My life is my book, but I can't read it. -- Marty Rubin
Pornography is sexual materialism. -- Marty Rubin
Writing is like giving birth to yourself. -- Marty Rubin
When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too. -- Marty Rubin
I'm not only laziness myself but I inspire laziness in others. -- Marty Rubin
Pain never apologizes. -- Marty Rubin
Joy is wisdom I trust. -- Marty Rubin
Muzzle the owner if the dog barks all night. -- Marty Rubin
When a problem is unsolvable, it ceases to be a problem. -- Marty Rubin
God, unity, meaning, transcendence all belong to the imagination. -- Marty Rubin
Thoughts come out of nowhere like everything else. -- Marty Rubin
Walk slowly through the world and pay attention -- Marty Rubin
A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking. -- Marty Rubin
Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything. -- Marty Rubin
If you want to write about life, you have to write about death. -- Marty Rubin
Time does not pass, it continues -- Marty Rubin
We write while sleepwalking and revise when awake. -- Marty Rubin
Reciprocal illusions: the pessimist's fear and the optimist's hope. -- Marty Rubin
Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'. -- Marty Rubin
Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done. -- Marty Rubin
Every wars casts humanity back into the primordial slime. -- Marty Rubin
Words could never satisfy me, but life satisfies me. -- Marty Rubin
One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself. -- Marty Rubin
Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long. -- Marty Rubin
Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude. -- Marty Rubin
One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked. -- Marty Rubin
Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses. -- Marty Rubin
What is technology in the end but man's futile effort to create the world in his own image? -- Marty Rubin
The ultimate aim of reading or writing poetry is to enrich one's life experience. -- Marty Rubin
Everyone's truth is their own life. -- Marty Rubin
When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something. -- Marty Rubin
To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job. -- Marty Rubin
It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story. -- Marty Rubin
Where there is a strong need to believe it's incredible what people will believe. -- Marty Rubin
Memories are fool's gold. -- Marty Rubin
An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown. -- Marty Rubin
Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand. -- Marty Rubin
Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence. -- Marty Rubin
We need a new religion, a global religion, based on one simple principle: live and let live. -- Marty Rubin
Whatever you want to do, do it now. Time is not on your side. -- Marty Rubin
Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side. -- Marty Rubin
The best dancer is the one who enjoys it the most. -- Marty Rubin
Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything. -- Marty Rubin
When you win an argument, what do you win? -- Marty Rubin
Walking alone, I sing to myself and am content. -- Marty Rubin
If a fool plants a beautiful garden, is he still a fool? -- Marty Rubin
My whole philosophy is a feeling about life. A feeling of awe. -- Marty Rubin
To accomplish a difficult task one must first make it easy. -- Marty Rubin
Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you. -- Marty Rubin
When one loves willingly, there is no sacrifice. -- Marty Rubin
The simplest action is worth more than the profoundest thought. -- Marty Rubin
What we do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow. -- Marty Rubin
Every journey brings you back home and to yourself. -- Marty Rubin
What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control. -- Marty Rubin
If Nero had played a better fiddle, Rome might never have burned. -- Marty Rubin
The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. -- Marty Rubin
No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination. -- Marty Rubin
Every day you live is a holiday from death. -- Marty Rubin
A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank. -- Marty Rubin
A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing. -- Marty Rubin
Even more than dreams our lies reveal our secret wishes. -- Marty Rubin
Our sins are sins of language. -- Marty Rubin
I tend to believe simple things are the real things. -- Marty Rubin
We are all in the dark and our hearts must lead the way. -- Marty Rubin
My formula for happiness is to have no formula for happiness. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none. -- Marty Rubin
A bad job is drudgery; a good job is slavery. -- Marty Rubin
Weather is always unrehearsed. -- Marty Rubin
Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches. -- Marty Rubin
Of all the sweet things in a human life, close companionship is the sweetest. -- Marty Rubin
If you follow the rules, it's your own fault. -- Marty Rubin
The only really free artist is the one who sings all alone in the shower. -- Marty Rubin
If art serves any purpose at all, it is to keep alive the spirit of freedom. -- Marty Rubin
Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be. -- Marty Rubin
Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them. -- Marty Rubin
A straw can crush you, if you let it. -- Marty Rubin
History is the study of the abuse of power. -- Marty Rubin
A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine. -- Marty Rubin
When I'm dying, I want dying to be my only regret. -- Marty Rubin
The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom. -- Marty Rubin
What is true for one time only is truer than what's always true. -- Marty Rubin
Writing is discovering what you don't know. -- Marty Rubin
What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living. -- Marty Rubin
What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly. -- Marty Rubin
Meddling is the evil, not indifference. -- Marty Rubin
Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions. -- Marty Rubin
Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them. -- Marty Rubin
What I have to say is too simple for words. -- Marty Rubin
Wherever freedom is being discussed, we're all part of the conversation. -- Marty Rubin
Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead. -- Marty Rubin
Don't tell me where the years went; I don't want to know. -- Marty Rubin
Humor is detachment, and detachment sets you free. -- Marty Rubin
Mediocrity is already a high standard. -- Marty Rubin
If you're not good company for yourself, you won't be good company for others. -- Marty Rubin
Some stories end in despair, some begin there -- Marty Rubin
Th tree sheds a memory with every leaf. -- Marty Rubin
How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small. -- Marty Rubin
Because of an apple Eden fell and Troy was destroyed. -- Marty Rubin
Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible. -- Marty Rubin
Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. -- Marty Rubin
Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication. -- Marty Rubin
Drug-pushers, God-pushers, sex-pushers, art-pushers-all kinds of pushers. -- Marty Rubin
Love has no future, if we don't love now. -- Marty Rubin
Happiness: the feeling of being alive. -- Marty Rubin
Life-hatred is a sickness, the worst sickness of all. -- Marty Rubin
The earth keeps turning but it never says why. -- Marty Rubin
Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship. -- Marty Rubin
If I could find the right words, I'd say what the blue sky says. -- Marty Rubin
There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one's individuality. -- Marty Rubin
See the sun with your own eyes; feel the earth with your own hands. -- Marty Rubin
May all your failures be failures of love. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is a problem unless you think it is. -- Marty Rubin
Cleaning only moves the dust somewhere else. -- Marty Rubin
In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated. -- Marty Rubin
Daydreaming is its own reward. -- Marty Rubin
Language is a game and we're all players. -- Marty Rubin
Love only starts to hurt when one stops loving. -- Marty Rubin
We are the problem, and there's no cure for that. -- Marty Rubin
Art appears when the artist disappears. -- Marty Rubin
The fate of one man or woman is the fate of all men and women. -- Marty Rubin
That life has no clear purpose or meaning is the best possible news for artists. -- Marty Rubin
Nature is wilder and stranger than any of the fictions our imagination can create. -- Marty Rubin
We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it. -- Marty Rubin
A beautiful phrase and a beautiful sunset derive from the same source. -- Marty Rubin
Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. -- Marty Rubin
One can always find a quote to justify anything. -- Marty Rubin
The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes. -- Marty Rubin
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. -- Marty Rubin
What is is plenty, but more is never enough. -- Marty Rubin
You either love what's broken or you don't love. -- Marty Rubin
Better to stay home than travel in a hurry. -- Marty Rubin
Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. -- Marty Rubin
There is more to writing than playing with words. -- Marty Rubin
Even the faded flower refutes nothingness. -- Marty Rubin
Look for the exception to every rule and you'll find it. -- Marty Rubin
If one bite fills you, you don't need two. -- Marty Rubin
What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us. -- Marty Rubin
Never say yes to anything you can't say no to. -- Marty Rubin
Boredom is peace misunderstood. -- Marty Rubin
Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another. -- Marty Rubin
It is time at last for all the gods to be silent. -- Marty Rubin
Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. -- Marty Rubin
What I like best is to notice something I never noticed before. -- Marty Rubin
No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea. -- Marty Rubin
Poetry is sublime nonsense. -- Marty Rubin
I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. -- Marty Rubin
Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity. -- Marty Rubin
Love is a shared solitude. -- Marty Rubin
What luxury! What opulence! To look up at the sky! -- Marty Rubin
I don't believe in the inner journey. Real life is lived outdoors. -- Marty Rubin
The real geniuses are the people who love life. -- Marty Rubin
Proving the obvious has never been easy. -- Marty Rubin
We should be helping each other, not hating each other. -- Marty Rubin
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone. -- Marty Rubin
When people die, their death dies with them. -- Marty Rubin
Even the heaviest rocks don't make a very big splash. -- Marty Rubin
To dance sublimely, one must forget one knows how to dance. -- Marty Rubin
Writing is killing time, like everything else. I do it because I like it. -- Marty Rubin
Struggle is less effective than doing nothing. -- Marty Rubin
You can't dissect a joy without killing it. -- Marty Rubin
Time and the wind never leave anything alone. -- Marty Rubin
We have to eat to live, and that's our timeless tale of tragedy. -- Marty Rubin
I prefer the lightness of laughter to the heaviness of thought. -- Marty Rubin
Only the dying know what real loneliness is. -- Marty Rubin
Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill. -- Marty Rubin
Names are just our way of forgetting things. -- Marty Rubin
The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life. -- Marty Rubin
Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence. -- Marty Rubin
The poem is the poet, the dreamer the dream. -- Marty Rubin
To conquer space requires just a single step. -- Marty Rubin
Freedom begins with respect for the freedom of others. -- Marty Rubin
One must believe in beauty in order to create it. -- Marty Rubin
The arts save us from a dreary skepticism. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is known until the heart knows it. -- Marty Rubin
The first thing that happens when you're happy is you start forgiving everyone. -- Marty Rubin
Everything is clear, except the words men use. -- Marty Rubin
The road to hell is paved with careful planning. -- Marty Rubin
The order you seek is the chaos you feel. -- Marty Rubin
The worst thing about being a writer is having to pretend you know what you're talking about. -- Marty Rubin
Where the fog is thickest, begin. -- Marty Rubin
Peace is the first condition of joy. -- Marty Rubin
We need feelings as well as facts to grasp life totally. -- Marty Rubin
A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal. -- Marty Rubin
The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself. -- Marty Rubin
What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself. -- Marty Rubin
All the rain that fell since the world began won't cure today's drought. -- Marty Rubin
The error never lies with facts but with how they're used. -- Marty Rubin
When sunlight does to the surface of water, music does to the spirit. -- Marty Rubin
Truth's opposite is not a lie, but a hundred thousand lies. -- Marty Rubin
The tragedy of every religion is that it needs a church to survive. -- Marty Rubin
The world is more beautiful than anything I can imagine; and so I open my eyes. -- Marty Rubin
A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own. -- Marty Rubin
Listen when the sirens sing. How else will you learn? -- Marty Rubin
Happiness comes from physical activity; sorrow from thought. -- Marty Rubin
Poetry is the search for a tangible reality. -- Marty Rubin
Never be obedient. -- Marty Rubin
Touch is a more powerful communicator than words. -- Marty Rubin
Blessed are they who love people, for they will be loved. -- Marty Rubin
How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others. -- Marty Rubin
The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want. -- Marty Rubin
One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action. -- Marty Rubin
Truth is what's left when you run out of excuses. -- Marty Rubin
Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. -- Marty Rubin
In poetry if the emotion is lacking, everything is lacking. -- Marty Rubin
Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas -- Marty Rubin
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it. -- Marty Rubin
Rain never falls on a cloud. -- Marty Rubin
Grace rides inside the waves. -- Marty Rubin
Life corrects the errors of logic. -- Marty Rubin
You can't know people, only their names. -- Marty Rubin
Salt water is and isn't the ocean. -- Marty Rubin
Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart. -- Marty Rubin
A new theory doesn't change the way things actually happen. -- Marty Rubin
Progress is discovering what you can do without. -- Marty Rubin
We forget more than we remember, we lose more than we find. -- Marty Rubin
I write because I don't know why I write. -- Marty Rubin
History is conjecture raised to the level of an art. -- Marty Rubin
When we face death, really face it, we realize that only love matters. -- Marty Rubin
Vampires are harmless. All they want is your blood. -- Marty Rubin
What you do to kill time is your real work. -- Marty Rubin
When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning. -- Marty Rubin
Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions. -- Marty Rubin
At 60, even one's thoughts have wrinkles. -- Marty Rubin
Don't resist! Open the door when love comes knocking. -- Marty Rubin
There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking. -- Marty Rubin
In the past, America had slaves. Now it has the work ethic. -- Marty Rubin
Intuition: the feeling one knows something when one knows nothing. -- Marty Rubin
All thoughts are beautiful when they're free. -- Marty Rubin
We don't need love to be eternal, only to be in our lives here and now. -- Marty Rubin
Habit: the body's memory. -- Marty Rubin
You have to create your life, not make demands of life. -- Marty Rubin
We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones. -- Marty Rubin
Even the dead keep changing and adding to their contradictions. -- Marty Rubin
Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut. -- Marty Rubin
We put ourselves through hell and that is hell. -- Marty Rubin
Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty. -- Marty Rubin
A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining. -- Marty Rubin
Heroism is overcompensation for fear. -- Marty Rubin
The truest philosophy contains the most contradictions. -- Marty Rubin
Inspiration is simply doing whatever it is you want to do. -- Marty Rubin
Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true. -- Marty Rubin
Find yourself? Why not lose yourself instead? -- Marty Rubin
Mountain climbers think of the mountain not of the danger. -- Marty Rubin
Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten. -- Marty Rubin
Love doesn't hurt until you stop loving. -- Marty Rubin
Silence has a grammar all its own. -- Marty Rubin
We need a great deal to be miserable, but very little to be happy. -- Marty Rubin
Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking. -- Marty Rubin
A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us. -- Marty Rubin
Emotions, unlike ideas, never become obsolete. -- Marty Rubin
There is a gust of eternity in every fleeting moment. -- Marty Rubin
With all our words and ideas we only trivialize life. -- Marty Rubin
Happiness doesn't think, it is. -- Marty Rubin
The artist is always dancing with death. -- Marty Rubin
Be grateful to the gullible heart! -- Marty Rubin
Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air. -- Marty Rubin
Man: an irrational being who imagines himself to be a rational one. -- Marty Rubin
A cloud is more real than all my thoughts. -- Marty Rubin
Time spent thinking about life is better spent enjoying it. -- Marty Rubin
By 30, we've almost completely replaced our actual childhood with a mythical one. -- Marty Rubin
Poets should be crazy-but only in their poems. -- Marty Rubin
Art is the truth of the imagination. -- Marty Rubin
We betray all that is beautiful in us by trying to explain it. -- Marty Rubin
Never have a plan; it'll just get in your way. -- Marty Rubin
Only fake tears last forever. -- Marty Rubin
Self-hatred is the ultimate degradation. -- Marty Rubin
What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct. -- Marty Rubin
What would you do if you couldn't do what you want?'-Something else. -- Marty Rubin
We love the things we love for no other reason than we love them. -- Marty Rubin
Mushrooms, growing in the deep forest. What do you hope to achieve? -- Marty Rubin
What I like more than anything is the touch of a warm hand. -- Marty Rubin
Flowers are the music of the earth. -- Marty Rubin
Trying to be more than human one becomes less. -- Marty Rubin
Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Jeremiahs. -- Marty Rubin
The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them. -- Marty Rubin
To be cheerful in this world one must have a strong sense of reality. -- Marty Rubin
Wildflowers need the least attention. -- Marty Rubin
The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart -- Marty Rubin
Life is too short to listen to reason. -- Marty Rubin
Even blind alleys lead somewhere. -- Marty Rubin
Write as if Time will erase every word. -- Marty Rubin
Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable. -- Marty Rubin
Artists become their myths. -- Marty Rubin
I have no heroes except flowers and children. -- Marty Rubin
Burn all the dictionaries and the things of the world will still be there. -- Marty Rubin
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. -- Marty Rubin
My morning rambles through the park will never make the history books. -- Marty Rubin
If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it. -- Marty Rubin
Only a poet can translate for the dead. -- Marty Rubin
It's only in fairy tales that words have the power to change things. -- Marty Rubin
I fear gratuitous censorship more than gratuitous violence. -- Marty Rubin
There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth. -- Marty Rubin
The greatest success any person can have is to truly embrace and enjoy their daily existence. -- Marty Rubin
The happy-go-lucky have the best luck. -- Marty Rubin
Opinion: a sign of ignorance. -- Marty Rubin
The mind loves riddles but not the heart. The heart loves only to touch and be touched. -- Marty Rubin
Better to let ideals die than people. -- Marty Rubin
Only the blank page needs no editing. -- Marty Rubin
Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real. -- Marty Rubin
Love without happiness is like a garden without flowers. I don't believe in it. -- Marty Rubin
Memories are like putty. We make of them what we will. -- Marty Rubin
Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors. -- Marty Rubin
Today is the day you've been waiting for. -- Marty Rubin
Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive. -- Marty Rubin
Why think when you can sing? -- Marty Rubin
It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else. -- Marty Rubin
We are the sum of our contradictions, together they make us whole. -- Marty Rubin
The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists. -- Marty Rubin
Existence is an is, not a why. -- Marty Rubin
Space-we fill it with our dreams. -- Marty Rubin
Writing is like life: it goes on. -- Marty Rubin
We need rest from the inexhaustible, from the mind. There is sleep-and meditation-and death. -- Marty Rubin
When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause. -- Marty Rubin
Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story. -- Marty Rubin
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. -- Marty Rubin
A quiet day is when the mind is quiet. -- Marty Rubin
If you have the experience, why do you need the words? -- Marty Rubin
Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy. -- Marty Rubin
Death is the country where nothing happens. -- Marty Rubin
The thought of death destroys some people and saves others. -- Marty Rubin
The law is that the law will be broken. -- Marty Rubin
I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it. -- Marty Rubin
The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice. -- Marty Rubin
One never lets go of an illusion without replacing it with another. -- Marty Rubin
Death has no rival. -- Marty Rubin
Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly. -- Marty Rubin
Waking is no different than sleeping if all you do is dream. -- Marty Rubin
Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses. -- Marty Rubin
Words are the great temptation. -- Marty Rubin
First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it. -- Marty Rubin
Dreams were the first movies. -- Marty Rubin
Where ambition and achievement are overvalued, human lives will be undervalued, -- Marty Rubin
Flesh gets its food, its sex, its sleep and is satisfied. But the mind is never satisfied. -- Marty Rubin
Technology is not the problem. We are the problem. -- Marty Rubin
They will say you're mad, if the truth you tell is yours. -- Marty Rubin
People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance. -- Marty Rubin
Truth is an outlaw in every country. -- Marty Rubin
We don't need false hopes or illusions to live happily. -- Marty Rubin
What we can't control, we call fate. -- Marty Rubin
Art is a picture of the spirit. -- Marty Rubin
Expectations have no effect on the harvest. -- Marty Rubin
Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads. -- Marty Rubin
The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is special if this moment isn't special. -- Marty Rubin
I call someone rich who loves the life they're living. -- Marty Rubin
Death is not a choice, even for the suicide. -- Marty Rubin
How vulgar funerals must seem to the dead! -- Marty Rubin
Fighting doesn't hurt until you stop. -- Marty Rubin
We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves. -- Marty Rubin
Home's a place to come back to, not a place to stay. -- Marty Rubin
Thinking is the disease, not the cure. -- Marty Rubin
Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language. -- Marty Rubin
First a voice; then an echo. Then nothing. -- Marty Rubin
Misery loves company, but not enough to enjoy it. -- Marty Rubin
Children remind us that we're all children. -- Marty Rubin
A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth. -- Marty Rubin
Better to love for no reason than have reasons not to love. -- Marty Rubin
Love's only power is the power of example. -- Marty Rubin
The freedom I treasure most is the freedom to get up and leave. -- Marty Rubin
Self-loathing is hell. -- Marty Rubin
Is there anything more enlightened, more intelligent, more intellectual than laughter? -- Marty Rubin
What bends, can break. -- Marty Rubin
Happy people have always inspired me. -- Marty Rubin
The currents of life run deeper than thought. -- Marty Rubin
There is no abstract truth, any more than there is abstract love. -- Marty Rubin
The dreamer is the part of the dream that's true. -- Marty Rubin
Children are the poem made flesh. -- Marty Rubin
Applause: the echo of a prejudice. -- Marty Rubin
Man trims the hedges, God lets them grow. -- Marty Rubin
Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is. -- Marty Rubin
Violence has given anger a bad name. -- Marty Rubin
The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do. -- Marty Rubin
There is no fact which is not at least part fiction. -- Marty Rubin
The secret to happiness is to be absorbed in something other than yourself. -- Marty Rubin
When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed. -- Marty Rubin
The future is an anachronism. -- Marty Rubin
We can't own ideas; they can only own us. -- Marty Rubin
More choices doesn't necessarily mean more freedom. -- Marty Rubin
Children, like God, see only our actions. -- Marty Rubin
When you think too much you lose the will to act. When you lose the will to act you lose the power to love. -- Marty Rubin
Morality is simply a device for leading people around by the nose. -- Marty Rubin
Beware of following a train of thought. -- Marty Rubin
Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge. -- Marty Rubin
All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives. -- Marty Rubin
The love of life begins with the love of one person. -- Marty Rubin
Worry about this, worry about that. In the end, you're dead anyway. -- Marty Rubin
The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference. -- Marty Rubin
A story has value whether it's true or not. -- Marty Rubin
Art always springs from a surplus of life -- Marty Rubin
In my travels I found no answers, only wonders. -- Marty Rubin
It's always the 'others' who are deceived. -- Marty Rubin
When I die, I want dying to be my only regret. -- Marty Rubin
It is always Time that has the last word. -- Marty Rubin
When in doubt, speak from the heart. -- Marty Rubin
Mirages enchant us up to the very moment we die of thirst. -- Marty Rubin
There is no fact that is not at least part fiction. -- Marty Rubin
Religions should teach that this life is enough. -- Marty Rubin
To be saved is to believe in one's own courage. -- Marty Rubin
Only kind people seem really human. -- Marty Rubin
Dissatisfaction is a bottomless pit. -- Marty Rubin
Wine is stronger than reason. -- Marty Rubin
Reasons? There are no reasons. -- Marty Rubin
What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art. -- Marty Rubin
The pearl only weighs the oyster down. -- Marty Rubin
Every dreamer thinks their dream is the true one. -- Marty Rubin
Books can't hurt you, if you don't read them. -- Marty Rubin
Philosophers console themselves with explanations. -- Marty Rubin
Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health. -- Marty Rubin
Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same. -- Marty Rubin
Life's an old story. we all know how it ends. -- Marty Rubin
When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else. -- Marty Rubin
Ideology is the product of a kind of mad logic. -- Marty Rubin
The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning. -- Marty Rubin
It's during a storm that the best songs get written. -- Marty Rubin
You don't need a reason to sing. -- Marty Rubin
Poetry is the science, the exact science, of feeling. -- Marty Rubin
Don't stand in the hallway trembling; join the dance. -- Marty Rubin
An easy life, but not a sedentary one. -- Marty Rubin
We suffer more from choice than from necessity. -- Marty Rubin
Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem. -- Marty Rubin
You can't eliminate the dust, only move it somewhere else. -- Marty Rubin
What we invent, we become -- Marty Rubin
Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances. -- Marty Rubin
Happiness is always there; it is we who are absent. -- Marty Rubin
One goes into the darkness to bring some light. -- Marty Rubin
There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top. -- Marty Rubin
First you have to survive adolescence; then your education. Finally, yourself. -- Marty Rubin
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience. -- Marty Rubin
We are not responsible for the world's suffering, only for our indifference. -- Marty Rubin
Love of the world is the soul of the world. -- Marty Rubin
Everything an artist smells, hears, tastes, touches becomes part of his art. -- Marty Rubin
It is a weakness to suffer when you don't have to. -- Marty Rubin