The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.
The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but to open up and discover. The energetic prose comes about from all the energy that went into crafting it, I suppose.
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.
It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.