The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.