If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.

Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

He has a sensitivity about him so that he can read people and have empathy for their situation. At the same time, he has a backbone to him that he's not over there holding anyone's hand.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.