Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer.
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!