22 quotes found
“I want all the books on the she”
“...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia”
“I've been the oldest child since before you were born”
“In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.”
“Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.”
“Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.”
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate f...”
“It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.”
“Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It...”
“It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.”
“Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted...”
“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everyt...”
“Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?”
“But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direct...”
“The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no re...”
“I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometime...”
“He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.”
“Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.”
“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
