From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.