Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Hunger steals the memory
Be lovely and do no harm.
The universe is transformation.
I spend most of my time writing.
He had a thousand-year-old stare.
History works itself out in the living.
Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
It was just enough to sit there without words.
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.
I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
