“I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.”
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Calm Quotes — page 247 of 276
“There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].”
“Let people live their lives, as long as they don't hurt anybody. As long as they don't destroy their own lives.”
“No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.”
“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.”
“Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.”
“He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.”
“The silence was an intense roar.”
“The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.”
“Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.”
“Houses are full of things that gather dust”
“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.”
“Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.”
“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”
“Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.”
“...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.”
“The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.”
“Home is wherever I go.”
“If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.”
“I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.”