Masons famous quotes

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be a doctor, or a physicist or something. Having those kinds of experiences at 12...the Chainsaw Kittens had a flamboyant homosexual lead singer, and the Flaming Lips were obviously very weird. I had only listened to the radio before that - things like Willie Nelson - so having people say, "These are the bands around here that you should listen to," I was like "Ok, I guess this is what normal music sounds like." That definitely changed things.