198 Quotes About Reality-check

When you’re gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?

Even though my works are overloaded with symbols, they actually have nothing to do with symbols. Even blood is what it is: it is blood and not a symbol at all, and in its reality it is almost above the symbol.

Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow.

Truth is only harsh if you're unable to face it.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and Fate shaking you until you can't hold on any longer. And then, when you are knocked for a six and lose your grip, they allow you to spiral into a freefall where men are broken and legends are made.

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.