What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.
Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.
With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.
My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
. . . any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.
Women beg me for it, and not the other way around. " "Then you should go to one of them. " "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile. . . do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.