I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.
Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.
You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties. " "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide. " "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.