I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance. . . you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company. . . . A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious.
By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.
Social media, especially Twitter, has completely changed the fashion and media industries - we now can go direct to consumers in a nanosecond - amazing way of distributing content - right to the point.
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has