I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.
What words are in you that can change the world?
I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.
[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.
How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best
One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
What’s burning?” “Your brain.
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.
So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.