Traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sac...
There’s only one part of a man’s anatomy that any potential mate should worry about measuring, and that is the length of his vasopressin receptor gene.
The clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.
Repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good—perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of...
Only thing I’d said was that a supreme intelligence exists in the universe, and that it longs for union with us.
Must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The
In stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed...
Hegira.
Guiñapo
Failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.
Crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity—for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one m...
Como dice García Márquez, se parece al amor, pero sin los problemas del amor.
Central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future is terribly grim.
But truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured,
But truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured, and the violence of love, Alma thought, was sometimes the most pitiless violence of all. Her
Because creativity is mystical doesn’t mean it shouldn’t also be demystified—especially if it means liberating artists from the confines of their own grandiosity, panic, and ego.
Ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too.
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
Your worth as a hostess consists in displaying the talents of your guests, not crowing about your own.
You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough fo...