Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.
Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.
You're a sum of all your experiences.
It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?