once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be...
enjoyed both places. But it's nice
What is your itinerary?To meet my maker.Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?A most mechanical and dirty hand {laughs}. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The...
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
We were in the gondolas at The Venetian. You said you couldn't swim, that I'd have to save you if we capsized.His Adam's apple jumped. Yeah.I was terrified for you.I know. You hung onto me so tight I...
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way...
In an era when letter writing is a diminished art, we have an opportunity to share this historical and literary treasure trove in The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This book is both a...
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities,...
James Hollis correctly observes, Wisdom is always humbling, never inflationary. . . . The realistic thinking of midlife has as its necessary goal the righting of a balance, the restoration of a person...
There are some people who hate for no reason at all. They just simply hate. They do not realize that their unjustified hatred inevitably turns inward to destroy them. Yes, it is self-destructive in...
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.
Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom.But I did know. was...
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's...
Yes. Isn't it … silly … how … upsetting … just thinking can be?" "It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.
I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
When I ask my students to journal daily, I ask them not to judge and not to filter. Just put it down, I say-whatever you think of, however you want. A week goes by, and I send along a copy of Joan...
before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that...
overnight. It had been
I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company.
Don't let the title mislead you, Arlbeth told her. The king is simply the visible one. I'm so visible, in fact, that most of the important work has to be done by other people.Nonsense, said...
She had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home.... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort...
Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He'd been bold all right, but Fortune hadn't gotten the memo.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Mark Nepo
The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-true stability-is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.
So what do you do for a living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
The clock in the church tower
Memories, James thought, thank God we have them. They help us to recall what's long gone, and we can live again in the past with those we once loved.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
