Good writing is always new.
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
Dreiser. . . I love. . . and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.
I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.