A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.
Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.
The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
There's always something to talk about.
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.