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This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.
Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.
I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.
It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.
Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.
Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.
Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either.
Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus.
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.
To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.
In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.
We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
When God calls you to do something, He provides everything it takes to get it done.
The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.
The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating-or God experienced.
What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.
It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.
The cheapest, most effective way to connect with others is to look them in the eye.
Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.