For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or because one knows not how to do anything other, or out of sheer wonderment...
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get int...
It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as though it had never occurred to us, and they’re disappointed if we can’t share their surprise when they have discovered that a hen lays an...
...he would tell stories about the Holy City, about Solomon, a just king, a poet-king, a monarch with a thousand concubines. We weren't quite sure what concubines were, but we guessed: a concubine ... Concubines! One thousand! One thousand women in a...
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
No man is ever just one thing.
Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated.
...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck
There's only one thing that can heal the heart... Only one... It's love, Gaara.
Life was simpler when we thought no one cares about what we think.
Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
