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I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.
Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.
In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.
Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.
I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.
I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.
I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.