What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?
People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.
Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you. " I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.
It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.
When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world. ' The friction which results from ignorance. . . can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.