"Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's aware there's a reader, which goes all the way back to Montaigne's often-used address "dear reader," or his brief introduction to Essais: "To the Reader." It can be done in a myriad of ways."

“I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

Source : Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.

“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.”

Source : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

“There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self is what there is and all there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself... all the time forgetting who he really is. Eventually however the Self awakens from his many dreams and fantasies and remembers his true identity, the one eternal Self of the Cosmos who is never born and never dies.”

Source : "Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth".

“At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.”

“Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.”

“I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.”

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys (p. 178), 1929.