I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.
It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.
And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.
Learning. . . is - also an end in itself.
If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative
Suppose. . . the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what?. . . . Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.