Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...