We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.
These are frightening times. . . when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.
I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.
Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?
The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless. ' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.
Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.
Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.