Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life. . . And this is what I hope. . . to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have. . . We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.