The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I stand in awe of my body.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.