He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.
The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.
It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering. . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?
Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.
But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end. ' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun. '
I'd love to write full time. But it's not something that is due to me because I'm a writer. Times are very hard for doing the thing you love, but the payoff for not having much money is that you love your job. A balance would be good. But yes, given infinite funds, or a guaranteed regular income of some kind, I'd happily shut myself away and write stories for the rest of what I've got in me.