No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.
I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.
What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.
You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
I loved that television show Mad Men because it really was a reminder of what reality was back then.
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.
When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.
If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.