I've Never Been Resigned To Ready-made Ideas

Writing Is Far Too Hard Work To Say What Someone Else Wants Me To. Serving It As A Craft, Using It As A Way Of Growing In My Own Understanding, Seems To Me To Be A Beautiful Way To Live. And If That Product Is Shareable With Other People, So Much The Better.

It's Not The Length But The Quality Of Life That Matters To Me. It Has Always Been Important To Me To Write One Sentence At A Time, To Live Every Day As If It Were My Last And Judge It In Those Terms, Often Badly, Not Because It Lacked Grand Gesture Or Grand Passion But Because It Failed In The Daily Virtues Of Self-discipline, Kindness, And Laughter. It Is Love, Very Ordinary, Human Love, And Not Fear, Which Is The Good Teacher And The Wisest Judge.

Morality, Like Language, Is An Invented Structure For Conserving And Communicating Order. And Morality Is Learned, Like Language, By Mimicking And Remembering.

I Didn't Want To Be A Boy, Ever, But I Was Outraged That His Height And Intelligence Were Graces For Him And Gaucheries For Me.

Casino Owners Spoke More Loudly Than Any Of The Other Kings Of Industry To Defend Their Contribution To Society. They Could Speak More Loudly Because Theirs Was The Purest Activity Of Civilized Man. They Had Transcended The Need For A Product. They Could Maintain And Advance Life With Machines That Made Nothing But Money.