It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to...

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of...

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

I need as much as I can get. The cost of living for our generation is way higher than it was for our parents.

..be able and willing to action regardless of all trauma, all the No’s, and non-supporters one could headache and pain on.

I began my work in the ’70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all...

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite...

Can’t look at the damage that’s been done, it’s not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can’t change what I’ve done, only what I’m gonna do.

I think there are things that you look for when you’re younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That’s not going to happen, and it’s really...

When you see someone on top, look away and don’t try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

Safety” and “fairness” are the preoccupation of the wounded. “Being” and “joy” are the unconscious realities of the free and living.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

We’re all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives...

We’ve gotten so good at growing food that we’ve gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in...

We all know we’re one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it’s not happening.

There is an independent Lebanon but there are not independent Lebanese. We don’t have citizens, we have people living here. We have to change the government and the presidency. Otherwise we are going to hell.

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers...

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don’t think about dying, either.

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren’t because you’re trying to please a...

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

How many things can I do without?

Writing that’s not working for a living.

Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.

I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal. That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying...

Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.

When I was 30 or so – by that time I had become an assistant D.A. – I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become...

Life never goes according to plan. That’s okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that’s one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason...

Vivre, naturellement, n’est jamais facile. On continue à faire les gestes que l’existence commande, pour beaucoup de raisons dont la première est l’habitude. Mourir volontairement suppose qu’on a reconnu, même instinctivement, le caractère dérisoire de...

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky – under each bulb – down...

To His Coy MistressHad we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day. Thou by the...

Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for...

We are fast moving into something, we are fast flung into something like asteroids cast into space by the death of a planet, we the people of earth are cast into space like burning asteroids...

Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

We can block our blessings with one thought, one decision. Sometimes your blessing may require certain actions on your behalf. You asked for the job? Now, you must get dressed and go to the interview...

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.

On the other hand, people are living longer now. That is kind of the negative side. If people are living longer, these businesses won’t grow all that fast.

Feel your emotions,Live true your passions,Keep still your mind.

What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

As long as I’m not living out of a suitcase, I’m happy.