We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus.
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.