Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.
I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.
I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition. I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. But what am I willing to do for that? I struggle with that a little bit. I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner. I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff very much.
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.
Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. . . . Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.