I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.