Archives - December 2014

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Think what a better world it would be if we all --- the whole world --- had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

If you think you can do a thing --- or think you can't do a thing --- you're right.

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember --- the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest between the heart muscle's close and open --- an instant of keenest living where you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice.

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

I like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance --- each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Of all sound of all bells...most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.