Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily precluded her from marriage. Some men liked a larger woman, who promised a stronger disposition, and Al...
When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.
Inimesed kujutavad ette, et hingesugulane on keegi, kellega sa täiuslikult kokku klapid, ja seda ju igaüks endale ihkab. Aga tõeline hingesugulane on hoopis peegel, inimene, kes näitab sulle kõike sed...
[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.
To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.
The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtue...
Everything I’ve ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am who I am today precisely because of what I have made, and what it has made me into. Creati...
He had heard especially promising things about Philadelphia--the lively capital of that young nation. It was said to be a city with a good-enough shipping port, central to the eastern coast of the cou...
Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you know of him?Naturally she knew of him. She had her own copies of these works in...
If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit of trash on the street outside your home, go walk the dog again, go bake a peach cobbler, go paint some...
This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat their own donations to the gods, since the offering is more metaphysical than literal. The way the B...
At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.
Para hallar el equilibrio que buscas te tienes que convertir en esto. Debes tener los pies tan firmemente plantados en la tierra que parezca que tienes cuatro piernas en lugar de dos. De este modo pod...
In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we long for that erasure because a particular day brought us such splintering sorr...
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusco...
I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that cr...
Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything
I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stub...