Bukankah hidup manusia ini tiap hari dicangkul, diendapkan, dan diseret juga seperti gundukan tanah merah itu?
Di dunia ini tak ada sesuatu kegirangan yang lebih besar daripada kegirangan seorang bapak yang mendapatkan anaknya kembali.
Aku mengeluh. Hatiku tersayat. Aku memang perasa. Dan keluargaku pun terdiri dari makhluk-makhluk perasa.
Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.
Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.
Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
