All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Those who expect opportunities to happen will never get as far as those who make opportunities happen.

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Holy shit! Can we say unstable? Was I the only sane one around here? Well, I guess that really wasn’t setting the standard very high." -Ember, Darkness Of Light

1 likes Like Yes, there will be rough times with your SoulMate, especially when you run up against your remaining ego barriers or trigger them in each other.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?