#life

"Sometimes Magic is What Disappears [10w] + {Couplet} Love's tragic, not ecstatic;with finespun change, disappears the magic."

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

"I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today."

"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding."

"When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek."

"I network like a Spanish Inquisitor. I am very good at extracting relevant information. And if you resist, you’ll only confirm your heresy."

"I may be going nowhere, but what a ride."

"You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously."

"Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions."

"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

"Double-Dipping [10w] Double-dip in righteousness and delight in the here and herafter."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"If the moment is everthing, then everything is time."

"I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all."

"Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture."

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."

"Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death."