Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature...
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
Even if my acquaintance at the publishing party was certain that she herself would never abandon her husband, the question was not entirely up to her. She was not the only person in that bed. All love...
En un mundo dominado por el desorden y el desastre y el fraude tal vez sólo se pueda confiar en la belleza.
En mi destino hay muchas cosas que se me escapan, pero hay otras que sí están bajo mi jurisdicción. Hay una serie de billetes de lotería que puedo comprar, aumentando mis posibilidades de llegar a ser...
Don't fret about the irrationality and unpredictability of all this strangeness. Give in to it. Such is the bizarre, unearthly contract of creative living. There is no theft; there is no ownership; th...
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but that He is, most of all, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle… The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana… From the center of my life, there came a great fountain…
Currents of humid wind swept down the mountainside. The air across the beach snapped and shimmied, like a bedsheet shaken out - as though the beach itself were shaking off the violence that had just b...
But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead
But you do not need your fear in the realm of creative expression.
But it was pure, this love that I was feeling.
But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time. You're young and beautiful, darling. Y...
Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.
Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.
Because when it all comes together, it’s amazing. When it all comes together, the only thing you can do is bow down in gratitude, as if you have been granted an audience with the divine. Because you h...
Because the truth is, I believe that creativity is a force of enchantment—not entirely human in its origins.