Be Adviced

He [Everett Ruess] wrote in his diary that there were "two rules in life — never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly."

When it comes to actresses or dancers or booze or drugs or dope it's like the rabbit makin' love to the skunk — I ain't had all I want, but I had all I can stand.
— Robert Blake on the "Tonight Show," May 3, 1984, Johnny Carson, hosting.

I am still writing bad poems which give me a great deal of pleasure: I know they are bad, and yet . . . a bad poem sometimes brings the poet, if not the reader, close to beauty.
— Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Secret Journal, p. 52, January 17, 1945.

People don't wear out, they give up. As far as trails go, there's always an open trail for the mind if you keep the doors open and give it a chance.
— Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter

Walking, there is no road. I swim, and water disappears. A squirrel jumping from tree to tree sees branches, not air.
— Source unknown

I've made shoes for everyone, even you, and still I'm barefoot!
— Bob Dylan, song "I an I,"

On the surface it's deep, but down deep it's very shallow.
— Peter de Vries

I don't write fiction; I invent fact.
— Jorge Luis Borges

Warner Swayze Axiom: When small men begin to cast large shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting.
— From Robert Blay

Alex's Iron Axiom: Life is the ultimate IQ test.
— Alex Fraser

Amis' Advice: Go ahead and be different — if you think you can stand the beating you'll get.