He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.
Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.
We like something because someone else liked it.
I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.
Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.
All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!
So, it's really about modeling it and letting people know you are an inspired person, a person who is in spirit, and then those forces that Carl Jung called synchronicity begin to show up and, lo and behold, the universe provides for you.
The apple. . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.