Gautama Buddha Quotes
Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
