Thank you Neil, and to the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks from the heart. My family, my agent, editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as mine, and that the beautiful rewar...
Talking about it changed it.
So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence.
She touched his face and tied his hair back for him. Her hands were cool. He had never felt anything pleasanter in all his life than the touch of her hands. He reached out for her hand. She was not th...
She told Everra that he had given her and Sallo the soul's hunger for books and thoughts, and must not deprive them now that Sallo was starving among the inanities of the silk rooms and she among the...
She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to lose all that, becoming old and a widow, powerless. But even so she did not feel she unders...
Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced.
Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible...It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Li...
SEEN ACROSS TEN MILES OF sunlit water, Lorbanery was green, green as the bright moss by a fountain’s rim. Nearby, it broke up into leaves, and tree-trunks, and shadows, and roads, and houses, and the...
Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. ‘The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never trul...
Question 14: Are you living your secret desires? Floored again. I finally didn’t check Yes, Somewhat, or No, but wrote in I have none, my desires are flagrant.
Progress means nothing to presence.
Prevne was crawling with agents, he went, even if you went to buy a newspaper your identification was checked. Easier to have it tattooed on, like you, said Kasimir, Move your foot, Stefan.—Move your...
People who sleep only two or three hours in the twenty-four are always geniuses. The ones you hear about, anyway. Never mind if the ones you don't hear about are dolts. Insomnia is genius. It must be....
People are supposed to be lean. You can’t be too thin, everybody says so, especially anorexics. People are supposed to be lean and taut, because that’s how men generally are, lean and taut, or anyhow...
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by...
Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life 'simple.' I never knew anybody, anywhere I hav...
Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun.
Onlardan korkuyorsun çünkü ölümden korkuyorsun haklı olarak: Çünkü ölüm ölüm korkunçtur ve ölümden korkmak gerekir... Ve yaşam da korkunç bir şeydir... ve yaşamdan hem korkulmalı hem de yaşam övülmeli...
One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, an...