Dreams of success often get in the way of actual success.

Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.

The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.

His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.

the Devil's hand directs our every movethe things we loathed become the things we love

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

So when you're cold From the inside out And don't know what to do, Remember love and friendship, And warmth will come to you.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.