Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
The body is seen by the mind, but the mind is seen by what?
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.