People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
. . . looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat. ' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.