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“I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.”
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“Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.”
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“And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'”
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“Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.”
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“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”
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“Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.”
Source : Myla Goldberg (2002). “Bee Season: A Novel”, p.1087, Anchor
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“I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.”
Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK
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“I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.”
