If you don't see the book you want on the shelf write it.
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.