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Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.
If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.
Damen, seriously, you must know I don't love you because you're immortal, I love you because you're you.
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.
The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.
You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.
When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.
Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.
I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.
It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.