She hadn’t been Rachel that night. She was evidence, a body of things to be picked and probed at, pictured and asked about, recorded and quoted. I want my life back. The voice was faint inside her own mind. She could hear the plaintive, almost desp...
My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don't always like what they...
I’m not interested in Bob Marley telling me to ‘lively up’ myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor’s voice crying through industrial rhytms. In the August evenings, I lie on my bed with earphones, letting ...
For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favours, but as paying Debts. In my Travels, and since my Settlement, I have received much Kindness from Men, to whom I shall never have any Opportunity of...
Arthur: Rise, Father, please. I was your son before I became your king; if I am King. Sir Ector: You are king, Arthur; the more so because you are not my son, and I am not your father. Arthur: Not my father? Then Kay is not my brother? Sir Ector: Mer...
Every man thinks his own thoughts are best.
By day think of your own faults, by night think of the faults of others.
Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.
I own a cow in heaven, but I cannot drink her milk.
He who covets the belongings of someone else loses his own.
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
He that performs his own errand, saves his messanger's hire.
They must stand high who would see their own destiny.
Bear patiently that which you suffer by your own fault.
Better your own copper than another man's gold.
Every man likes the smell of his own farts.
Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man's is but weeds.
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
You can never consider that as your own which can be changed.
Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain.
Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
