I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.
My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.