A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.
He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.
I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.
Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.
Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.
Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.
He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious