If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
What this country needs. . . what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.