Bare essentials. Like packing for paradise when you know you’re boarding the barge to hell.
If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?
I can't name just one example. Then there's only one.
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.
Life’s too short to do anything but enjoy it daily.
Sure, life as we know it is enough. But life as we don’t know it? That’s where the magic awaits. That’s where second chances abound.
Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.
I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was...
And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everythin...
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
If you're alive, you're creative.
What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes sometimes did, through the detritus of their interrupted ...
How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.
They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and tobacco may be intemperately pursued to the detriment of their devotees; yet, to my mind, one cannot have too much of a good mur...
