I have done some short pieces that are not horror.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
I just don’t think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it’s dark, accentuate the darkness.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he’s OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.