To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?
Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.
To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
