The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,” I said. “Keep it up!
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god. . . No river contains a spirit. . . no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.
I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.