Healing is an inside job.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!
Live or die, sink or swim.
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.
The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.
The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records, you have gathered information, you have performed interviews. In a novel, you talk about what you don't know, because the novel comes from the unconscious. They are very different relationships with words and with the world. In journalism, you talk about trees; in the novel, you try to talk about the forest.
I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.