Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
Her sunny side was always up.
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.
Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm. " "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.