Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else..

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A write….

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a ….

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time..

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in….

I never learned to read music..

But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel u….

I'm fearful and anxious for my family in ways that I've never been fearful or anxious for myself. I'm completely vulnerable to their pain, both physi….

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy..

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance.

There's no love without pain..

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness..

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers..

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reaso….

I understand Twitter much more than I understand Tumblr..

I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where ….

I have never voted in my life..

Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered fro….

You have only one life, make the most of it.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer..