Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.
And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.
[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer. ' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder. ' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.
But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?
The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.
Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.
It is funny what a year can do.
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.