"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm."

-- Tahir Shah

#Moments Quotes #Harm Quotes #Uncertainty Quotes

“One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist”
“It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.”
“Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.”
“You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.”
“And I like large parties. Theyâ€™re so intimate. At small parties there isnâ€™t any privacy.”
“I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.”
“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.”
“If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.”

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