Famous Quotes

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

"I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way."

"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered."

"E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard."

"The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us."

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.your life is your life.know it while you have it.you are marvelousthe gods wait to delightin you."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you."

"The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."

"Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new."

"Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there."

"Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change."