I was born with my eyes turned inward.

I’m self-taught. I didn’t just become a man, it was a decision.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.

You can’t hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!

I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn...

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry...

Just because you can, doesn’t necessarily mean that you should!

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received … jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

You have a life; make a success of it.

You’ve got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You’ve got to become them.”(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers...

Perhaps once in a lifetime we meet someone who has the ability to inspire us in one brief meeting, who can confront not one but two life-threatening illnesses with remarkable courage – and instil hope...

After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship under the soon-to-be-famous John Gardner, the first “real writer” he had ever met....

I’d rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing...

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I’d better tell my story before other people told it...

We are now edging across the boundary – always a porous one – between self-justification and fantasy. Matthews’ story is by no means a complete fantasy: we can recognise every event. But the frame of...

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

I was born in the house my father built.

Once undressed I felt less exposed. (…) Naked was my uniform. (…) There was no pressure to conform.

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93...

But artists didn’t need to achieve “firsts”, and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.

What drove us crazy wasn’t necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the...

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What “grace” might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause,...

I don’t know enough to have any regrets

WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!

If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud’s interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation....

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could...

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn’t discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible....

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in 1797 it was something that had never been encountered before, and would emerge...

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

For when I trace back the years I have liv’d, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer’d Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my...

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths,...

Enfim, por alguma razão se fazem as guerras, respondeu o avô, levantando as sobrancelhas. Só nas guerras é que os homens podem matar-se uns aos outros sem serem castigados.

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

Tout est question d’équilibre

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews’ mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

Everyone loves Bollywood movies and crazy about to hear/read breaking news and the upcoming movies information and for that they can go through out the websites portals or by any other written material. Then Filmbees...

We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard and wrote it backward – Menlove Fanny – and we all...

Maybe he’d never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to...