There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.
I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
