Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'. " "So that would be a yes.
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.
Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
Even though I have many obstacles in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me.