Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other
The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith. . . include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.
Calculate a stock's priceearnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.