Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.
Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.
This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency. . . Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell. ' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.
First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now