I love her so damned much." Manny heard himself say. “That’s my heart right there. That’s my woman”.
What... are you?" she choked out. "No sunlight. Funky choppers." he inhaled raggedly. "Take a guess.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation
Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.
I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.
I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.
I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.
It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.
If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.
It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.