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An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.
I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
Reincarnation is implicit in the manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental.
O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?
Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet.
Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour. (Nothing is real but dreams and love.)
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.
You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.
Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.
If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.