If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Chentlemen, you are vorried about the depression[sic]. You should not be. For capitalism, a depression is a good, cold douche.
It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.
a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.
Cool, calm, and unemotional. Protestant, for short. It's a fantastic religion, it makes absolutely no demands upon you at all, which is why it's not a great religion. All great religions are built on shame. You don't have any of that if you're Protestant. You go to the church, sing a few hymns, have a cup of tea, everybody goes home and has a wank.
[Interviewer: Do you believe in climate change? Do you think it exists? ] Er, there is a cooling and there is a heating, and I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. [Interviewer: Right. ] Right? That wasn't working too well, because it was getting too cold all over the place. The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records, OK, they're at a record level.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;
if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.
It is too late to try to calm the mind after you take up the sword. First you must calm the mind and then take up the sword.