It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox. " She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.
I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong. ' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.