Illicit sex, Marcus, drives at least half the decisions of the modern world, wouldn’t you agree?
Sex
Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of “if only’s” leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one’s final iteration of the excuse became one’s final utterance, and one expired.
Life Lessons, Life Philosophy
Children - their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must - that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow that will never be.
Fate, Children, Future
The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.
Future, Past, The Past