Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they’d be my best friend. Other times you’re being interviewed by a complete jerk.
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it’s hard to smile.
Writers don’t write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
The ‘creator’ and the ‘editor’ – two halves of the writer whole – should sleep in separate rooms.
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.
It’s always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that’s the person I’m going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it’s there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain’t me.
My success is not who I am.
It’s true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
I’ve never been one to tear the social fabric.
Make peace with what is.
Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.
He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first.
Because it has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.
And once I wanted to be a fireman. Then.
Happy!” She looks at him. “Oh, Ward! You give us all the definition, will you? But first you’d better check on those kids. Every day, to make sure they’re good and safe, that.
A little advice about feelings kiddo; don’t expect it always to tickle.” Dr, Berger.