Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life. . . after diagnosis
I feel healthy, I feel happy.
Enjoy your life. . . let loose, party hard and just have a good time :) <3
Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?
I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.
I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.