Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place. . . and it implies relations among differentiated positions. ' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.
Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.
Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.
There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.
Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.
I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging. . . you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.
Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.