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Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.
...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.
A good river is nature's life work in song.
I have been fighting over commas all my life.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.
Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.
The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.
I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.
One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.
La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.
I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.
Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.
She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.
They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.
One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.
Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.
...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.