Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.
In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.
When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
I did not give Xanax or anything else to my child.
If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.
Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.
Is Miami America? Is it a state? Is it the South? ... I love Miami for the same reason I love the places I love most around the world... it's the mix here, this big, messy, dysfunctional hell broth of people from all over the world that make it so awesome and make it a place I want to keep coming back to. Also the food's good.
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
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Anthony: Biography and Life Work
Anthony was a notable masculine given name derived from the Antonii.
Anthony , also spelled Antony , is a masculine given name derived from the Antonii , a gens ( Roman family name ) to which Mark Antony ( Marcus Antonius ) belonged. According to Plutarch , the Antonii gens were Heracleidae , being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles . Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland.
Philosophical Views and Reflections
In the United States, it was the 43rd most popular male name in 2021, according to the Social Security Administration . Nino or Toni , shortened from Antonino , is used for those of Italian descent. Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1940s; in 1944 it was the sixth most popular male name and was still as high as 14th in 1964.
The name was historically spelled Antony, as in William Shakespeare 's play Antony and Cleopatra . During the late 15th till 17th century, the letter "h" became more frequent in the spelling of the name on the notion that it originally derived from the Greek word ἄνθος ( anthos ), meaning "flower". In Britain, the historical pronunciation / ˈ æ n t ən i / predominates for both spellings, while in the United States the spelling pronunciation / ˈ æ n θ ən i / is more common when the "Anthony" spelling is used.
