A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
From John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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