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Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.
OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there.
Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
If the Lord calls you, He will equip you for the task He wants you to fulfill
you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.
Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.
I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.
American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.