The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.
But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!',. . . chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.
Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.