Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.