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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.
When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.
Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.
I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.
Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.
Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.
Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.
The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .
Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.
What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.
That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.