Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Philosophy. . . should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.
I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.
Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.
I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.