When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor.
The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
Wikipedia is so dangerous.
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn’t even know it.
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
I think 99 percent of women’s lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology – it doesn’t precede it.
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
You couldn’t be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you’d been abused into affecting public humility.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
You have to be careful who you let define your good.