Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated And you can live through anything if Magic made it They say I talk with so much emphasis Ooh they so sensitive

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

I can no longer live by thinking.