It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemb...
You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from th...
Do not be afraid to color outside the lines. Take risks and do not be afraid to fail. Know that when the world knocks you down, the best revenge is to get up and continue forging ahead.Do not be afraid to be different or to stand up for what's right....
I am a black bird, a Raven, I am Raven. I know and I am knowing—I know and see life and death, expansion and contraction and I do not shiver and cry—I am unafraid. I am Raven. I am black as liquid night with wings and my eyes are stars to see by....
I am in the night of the stars. The moon is new and I see my way by focusing on the light given off by the Souls of the trees. The night air is thick and dark and sweet, like blueberries. It enters my nose and throat and ears to fill me up with its n...
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those i...
Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.
World is suddener than we fancy it.
Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.
Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,
Shall I add a man to my collection?
Happiness is a true wealth, which no money can buy.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.
Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.
