If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.
figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
Pity is something only weakness wants.
People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia , are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.
When you're amongst people doing well it's so gratifying and spurs you to just keep investing in your job.
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.