You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.
Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.
