I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.
We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him. . . the people who give you their food give you their heart.
I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.
I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken. ” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U. N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.