One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

A lie twice believed is self decieved

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

Even the broken will fight

Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.