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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.
I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard.
I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.
The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.
Just the idea that no matter what Thor is up to he comes back to Earth is something special.
How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?
"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women.
He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?