It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.
I love teaching; I love little kids.
She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
People can be unimaginably foolish. . . and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.
When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have a reason for doing what he's doing, and it's not anything I can imagine myself wanting to do, things get a little more difficult to write, and careless mistakes are made.
You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.