Return with your shield, or upon it. ’ (Julian's stepmother)
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.