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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.
A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.
I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.
Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.
You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.
There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.
It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.
Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people"