How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.
The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
Evil is a point of view. . . God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately. . . for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.
the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.
At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.
The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.