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I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.
Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.
You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
Dealing with babies is nothing to be afraid of. Just keep their nails trimmed, and you're good.
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.
A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
For me, things were either very sullied or very pure, very controlled or very under-controlled.
I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.
Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.