Pardon me, sir, Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck, if I understand you correctly, it seems you have identified the different textures of human hair as...
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.
Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
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...
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.
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...
Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight.
Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything
I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.