You need a positive attitude nationwide.
I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
I thought of my mother (. . . ). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life. " "Oh boy. " My nose wrinkled. "Hello, Mr Comfortable. I'm Miss Complicated. " His grin flashed. "Never a dull moment.
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.