“Sometimes, I fear that the only time I will not be utterly consumed by worry is when I lay dead.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“You always know how to tread water, even in a flood. Meanwhile, I can't even stay afloat in a drizzle.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“A golden eagle does not need a crown to rule the sky.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“The girl who once stood in my boots was gone, with pieces of her scattered across the Great Ocean. All that remained was a cold and ruthless shell of what once breathed.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5) When you can't create you can work.
6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9) Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10) Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11) Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.”
“Only a soul unburdened by the weight of mortality would stand before death without fear nor worry.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“...us lazing around and indulging in gluttony while we chide those who do the same in ignorance was the deepest level of hypocrisy.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“Since when does law equate to morality?”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“Even a tree has roots, but that cannot keep it's acorns from being swept away by strong winds. If all acorns fell in the same spot, a forest could never grow.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“The loudes person in the room was rarely the most intelligent, and more often, the opposite.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening