But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
So few people know what they're capable of.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.
I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them.