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.

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

Emma felt frightened, apprehensive, yes, but also elated and excited, her feelings all tumbled and mixed together like a stew of varied ingredients tossed into the same pot. She was aware of the blood coursing...

I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch...

Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I’d just never dreamed that I’d have to do it alone.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there’s nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you’re living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you’re...

I think it’s highly likely that we’ll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I’m not sure we’re all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens – which...

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

LOOK at what is there first instead of what YOU want…Enjoy what YOU have for one day it WILL BE the exact thing YOU want back. Accept within yourself that YOU are not being your...

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on...

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

Where there is no will,there is always a way out.