Quotes About Experience

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

It never even occurred to me until I got the idea for the first Psychic Eye mystery to turn my experiences as a down to earth,(somewhat) levelheaded psychic into a saleable story. And once I got the idea -- the whole thing just snowballed and it all happened very, very fast.

This life is a process of learning.

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway.

If you don't hear this kind of music [pop] at the right time, can it ever make sense to you?

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

Making the journal equal to the journey is simply a matter of shifting your intention: you're no longer traveling and keeping a log on the side, but embarking with a dual purpose.

For my money, this is the highest purpose of journaling. A travelogue enables you to look inward while studying the unfamiliar scenes around you,

What do years have to do with this feeling we have? They're just... just numbers.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

the trip itself may have so far gone smoothly,

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.

I have done this before. In other cities, other nights. So often I can repeat each gesture without owning any of them.

Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.