You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived i...
Boromir: The world of Men will fall, and all will come to darkness, my city to ruin. Aragorn: I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail.
Sethi: With so many slaves, you could build an army. Moses: But I have built a city. These lions of Pharaoh will guard its gates, and it shall be the city of Sethi's glory. Sethi: Are the slaves loyal to Sethi's glory or to you, Moses? Moses: The sla...
I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silico...
Berlin is my favourite city.
I've always lived in a city.
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
I fall into him like one would fall into a dream, ready to submit to your subconscious's inner most desires and your deepest fears.
First love yourself.. the real inner-self.. then only you’ll be able to love the world.. the lives.. the souls.
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.
My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
