My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.
Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.
"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."
When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.
I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.
It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.