Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.
There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.
Learners are doers, not recipients.
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.
For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous
I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun.
Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.