I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs. . . but I might be the guide that someone needs.
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.
I'm so sick of Betty White. Never liked her.
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction
The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i. e. , a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.
But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.