Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.
Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.
Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.
I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.