To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.
My loneliness tasted like pennies.
. . . You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.
What is real is always worth it.
Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone
There is no such thing as a soulmate. . . and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
Am I good enough to go to Heaven?
In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will benefit in the long run.