And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you’re buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.
As for jokes, I don’t think it’s necessarily that what I write is funny.
Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They’re totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.
If we can’t alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.
Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.
It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.
Right, wrong – those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain’t.
In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.
Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one’s plans for it.
Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn’t from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.
Running from horrors doesn’t help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.
As for Madelyne, she continued to ply her trade. But such a life takes a fast toll on a woman. It is easy to be a remote, untouchable beauty and stay that way for many, many years. And if a stunning tapestry is hung upon a wall, it remains unsullied and a work of art. However, if one drapes it across the floor of a pub and all manner of men tread upon it with their heavy boots, it’s going to be worn rather thin, and rather quickly. Such was the case with my mother.
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be something that got me high marks. I had an amused glimmering of a notion at that point: If I ever turned out to be a complete and utter fool, I could wind up running the whole kingdom. It was something to consider.
It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.
The Crimson King speaks. As a direct result, somewhere a slumbering, dreaming infant shudders in its sleep, and dies.
I will always have doubts... But I will always overcome them.
Bill Torbert, that “if you are not aware of how you are part of the problem, you can’t be part of the solution.” By contrast, systems thinking enables people to identify high-leverage interventions based on deep insights into root causes that incorporate their own thinking and behavior.
Increasing self-awareness is an intervention in and of itself, and the precursor to making any other changes.