An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
I don't really have a process. I just start working and keep going until it's done.