People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. . . but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
Great conversation. . . requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.
My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.