Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.
Ten years have gone by since the ten year anniversary, and I still remember it like it happened a decade ago.
The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.
I spent New Year’s Eve tweezing my nipple hairs. If I were any more romantic, I’d be a Nicholas Sparks novel.
The watch I bought this year looks exactly like the watch I bought last year, only it’s lighter, because it’s got 365 less days in it.
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.
Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.
We’re only five years apart,” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.
You know what, I had 11 great years with St. Louis. My gosh, those are the best years of my life. And I will never, ever forget that.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.
I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.
I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.
