Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they...
A sage Portuguese sailor who had told him, years before 'To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
Everyone should leave the table feeling as if they’ve gotten a bad deal, my father once taught me joylessly. This way, you may rest assured that nobody was taken for a ride, and that nobody can get to...
What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.)
Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other’s help.)
Boris Pasternak described this phenomenon beautifully, when he wrote, No genuine book has a first page.
Anyhow, the golden rule in my family is this: If you’re supporting yourself financially and you’re not bothering anyone else, then you’re free to do whatever you want with your life.)
The men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest.
Somewhat
Said: We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start t...
Only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us at all times, as close and as relevant as life itself, and that this reali...
Just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.
You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head...
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
You are not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important.
Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our...
Well, you can’t have too much conscience about things! said Gladys. Or else you’ll never stop worrying! And that, I’m afraid, was the extent of our moral agonies. Subject closed.