Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events.

You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures.

There were crimson roses on the bench

When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.

A writer's work is to witness things.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.