You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff
Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.
Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.
I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbones, and I guess these eyes, and the big nose. . . this is what my momma and my poppa gave to me, and that's the deal.
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.