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No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
"I think the most important thing is to enjoy what you're doing. If you enjoy it, then you'll do it well."
You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.
If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America.
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
The ordinary is extraordinary if you look closely enough.
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
"The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last."
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.