Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.
But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego.
Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.