When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.
Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.
Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
To be a man, a boy must see a man
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.
We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.