Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.
Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.
I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.
But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.