67 Quotes by Roger Rosenblatt

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The only reason I wanted ‘Making Toast’ as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there’s the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

The best in art and life comes from a center – something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that’s very hard to do.

Whatever you think matters – doesn’t. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

The problem with death is absence.