A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
I am part of the demographic and I love it.
I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this. "
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.