There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel anything you read all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
That is what I'm looking forward to the most practical learning. I want to...
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly...
As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I...
