Every silver lining has a cloud.
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
At the end of the day, I think I understand the dynamic that we face. And I'm best prepared to be commander in chief on day one, with all due respect to my other colleagues, including Hillary Clinton.
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.
The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.