I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things. fall in love with someone who does the right things.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things
I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.
I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the an...
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know ...
There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there ...
Point is, maybe some people wouldn't want to be around me all day, but there are people out there who would. And they're smart and funny. And they like some of the same things I like and hate some of the things I hate, but they also introduce me to a...
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness doe...
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
