How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! -- Henry David Thoreau
Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking.-- James Clear
I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the
page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so
easy. Of course, there are those critics — New York critics as a rule —
who say, Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good
but then she’s a natural writer. Those are the ones I want to grab by
the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get
it to sing. I work at the language.-- Maya Angelou
There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.-- Paul Ehrlich
