Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.
The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.
I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping.
A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.
Prayer is a path where there is none.
To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't.
Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.
I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.