Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Honestly, that puts a lot of weight on your shoulders because you're representing so many great people who want to see so much. And they're hungry for. . . I hate to use the word change because [Barack] Obama used to use that word. . . but they're hungry for real change; they're hungry for making things right.
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.
The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.