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The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.
For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.
If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.
In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.
You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.