When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.
Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.