I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.

A happy player is a good player, I think.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.